It is considered the most hated woman in the history of music. But Yoko Ono is not only the widow of John Lennon, but also an independent artist. In Leipzig, Works from five decades will be shown.
Over 2000 square meters of exhibition space can play Yoko Ono in the Leipzig Museum of fine arts. From the ground floor up to the second floor in Germany, the largest exhibition of the Japan covers-American artist. So everything is constructed according to the eccentric Yoko, as a curator, her longtime friend and Confidant of Jon Hendricks on the ground.
“Keys to Open the Skies”
To see smaller objects, and space-filling installations and sculptures, the 86-year-old Yoko Ono. The Museum would like to give the “One-Woman Show,” an Overview of your entire artistic creation since the 1960s. All of the media, i.e. films, video works and her solo albums. In addition, be presented in Leipzig is very rarely shown drawings.
“Give Peace a Chance”
Known Yoko Ono in 1969 was due to their spectacular marriage to John Lennon of the Beatles. Until today, you will be blamed by Fans and music critics, the cleavage of the legendary Band, which ultimately led to the end of the Beatles. Here, Yoko Ono was “the woman at his side”, but an independent Performance artist long before she met John Lennon.
Parts of the long-lost film of their legendary “Bed-In” in an Amsterdam Hotel are just showed up by chance in a private archive. After their wedding, the famous Couple spent a week in bed – and gave countless Interviews in the name of world peace.” The images went around the world.
Installation by Yoko Ono
Privileged Childhood in Japan
Born Yoko Ono, on 18. February 1933 in Tokyo, in the Imperial estate of their grandparents. The family maintains good relations with the Japanese Royal house. Money plays no role. Yoko – the Name means “child of the sea” – grows up in a Palace-like house with 30 staff. To your parents you little contact. Her father works as a banker in California. Until two years ago when her mother moved with the children in the United States, she learns to know him.
As a child, Yoko gets the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, which leads also to your commitment as a peace activist. Only after the end of the Second world war, the family returns to Japan. There she goes to a privileged elite school for the nobility, the sons of Emperor Hirohito with her in a class.
Beginnings as a Performance artist
As a young woman, Yoko Ono goes back to the US and started studying at “Sarah Lawrence College” in New York. Philosophy, art and music composition are of interest to you, but she can’t keep. In 1959, she began studying and plunges into the art scene of the vibrant US metropolis.
The artist Yoko Ono in 1968 in London
As an artist, she begins to work with experimental film and music. And of Dada, Marcel Duchamp, and the leading figure of John Cage-influenced Fluxus movement: a kind of rediscovery of Dada with modern means, fall in the Happenings of the barriers between the artist and the audience.
In 1962, she accompanied the famous American composer Cage on his tour of Japan.
From the beginning, Yoko Ono sees itself as a cross-border avant – garde, and performance artist. Often she works with naked bodies and provocative actions. Also part of their protest to the “Overcoming of social barriers, the women are constantly marginalized,” she writes at the time, in a feminist Pamphlet. In 1970, she turns the Video “Rape”, in the 23 minutes long-a Fly on a naked woman’s body is crawling.
The woman between the Beatles
Peace demo: John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam (1969)
In 1966, Yoko Ono, in England, meets the Beatles guitarist John Lennon. He comes as a visitor in her London exhibition and is fascinated by this independent artist. Three years later, the two marry. The artist brings a couple together several peace albums out of moving. With “Give Peace a Chance” lands of the newly founded “Yoko Ono Plastic Band” in 1969, a worldwide hit.
After John Lennon largely out of the Public withdrew, takes his wife Yoko, the shops and takes care of as an asset Manager, even after his murder in 1980 in order to the financial Affairs.
She is now one of the richest women in the United States. Bearing the reputation as a “dragon Lady” and the dubious fame as the “most hated woman in the history of rock” (TAZ 2.6.1996). You have benefited from the popularity of her dead husband’s enormous, she was accused of until today.
Only 25 years later there is a reconciliation with the Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, both of which are documented in a jointly recorded Album.
Objects of their Installation “We’re all water”, which was shown in 2013 in Sydney
Art as a community experience
1995 Yoko occurs Ono for the first time publicly as an artist in her home country of Japan. In 2008/09, various museums in Germany and the UK show a Retrospective of her Work. In 2009, the art Biennale honors in Venice, the Japanese girl with the Golden lion for her life’s work. 2012 she receives in Vienna Kokoschka-prize. In 2014, there is a major retrospective at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
For her current exhibition in Leipzig, “Yoko Ono. Peace is Power” has invited the Japanese, German artists, to develop an object that is then filled with water. This is part of their performative concept, which makes you their exhibitions also to the “community of art”. The “Water Event” had developed as early as 1971 for an exhibition in Syracuse, new York in the United States.
Yoko Ono has announced the opening of the Leipzig exhibition, the Museum of fine arts. The exhibition is still on until 7. To see July 2019.
More to Yoko Ono you know in our image gallery:
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Yoko Ono: A life in criticismThe woman of many names
Yoko Ono must have a thick skin, because no other person from the art world has experienced a lot of hostility as you are: the separation of reason, of the Beatles, the eternal widow, the most hated woman in the world – these were some of their titles. Your unapproachable Aura seemed to be a welcome confirmation of all the possible reservations with regard to independent women.
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Yoko Ono: A life in criticismTogether, the avant-garde rock
In 1956, married Ono, allegedly against the resistance of their parents, the Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi. They stirred up the avant-garde scene in New York, before the musicians to Tokyo returned. When his wife followed him, the relationship was probably already at the end of, Yoko Ono is said to have also suffered from depression. In that time, she met the producer Anthony Cox.
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Yoko Ono: A life in criticismNot A Family Man
Cox supported the young artist financially and Onos was eventually second husband. In 1963, their daughter, Kyoko, to the world, what is the very self-certain, Yoko did not lead to joy jumps came. When she met John Lennon, she left the child in the case of Cox. The joined a cult and went into hiding with the child. Ono saw her daughter again, as this was a grown-up.
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Yoko Ono: A life in criticismInvisible Half
“Half-A-Room” called Yoko Ono a work of art from the year 1967. They found that in the living room, cut in half and painted white furniture. Thus, the pioneer of the concept art focused on the loss of the wholeness of the people. Such spaces are often at Yoko Ono, calling on the viewer, in his imagination, to complete the work.
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Yoko Ono: A life in criticismA little bit of peace
In 1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono got into bed to demonstrate for peace. The Bed-In took place in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. The reactions were split, settled forgotten somewhere between the world and the esoteric. There is hardly a doubt seemed to exist for the Public, however, the fact that John of Yoko influenced.
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Yoko Ono: A life in criticismA rotten Apple
John Lennon holds an Apple in the height, at his side the woman, in the many Fans saw the rotten Apple in the basket of the Beatles is: all of a Sudden Yoko Ono showed up at the Studio recordings of the Band and intervened in the productions. Later, many gave the blame for the fact that the group zerbracht.
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Yoko Ono: A life in criticismStill a little bit of peace
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were also musically a Few. Some of the recordings were difficult to access, and also because Yoko ono’s voice was good for the masses. “Give Peace a Chance” but – here are pictures of the shooting in Montreal – has developed into a large Hit of the two.
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Yoko Ono: A life in criticismNo Limits
That Yoko Ono art and life are not separated from each other, introduced a year after the death of her husband. For the Cover of her album “Season of Glass” placed Lennon’s bloodstained glasses on a table in the common apartment with views of the Skyline of New York. With the Album processed Ono the loss.
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Yoko Ono: A life in criticismHalf-Brothers
Julian Lennon (left) is John’s son from his first marriage, whose relationship is supposed to be cool to his mother-in-law Yoko always. To the right in the picture Sean Lennon, son of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. He was 5 years old when his father was murdered in December 1980.
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Yoko Ono: A life in criticismWith the Pure
The shadow of her relationship to John Lennon will no longer be able to drop Yoko Ono, but she seems to have arranged: it is recognized as an artist and manages the estate of her third husband. 2010 brought to you on the occasion of the 30. The death tags and the 70. Anniversary of the birth of John Lennon the albums, remastered on the market.