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" YOKO ONO

IMAGINE PEACE

Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace

 

26 September - 28 October 2007

 

UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History

The University of Texas at San Antonio

 

Opening Night / Wednesday 26 September 2007 / 5-9pm

 

 

 

Additional Events

"Yoko Ono: Imagining Peace, 1966-2007" / Lecture / Dr. Kevin Concannon

Wednesday 26 September, 6pm / Reception to follow

Recital Hall / Arts Building / UTSA 1604 campus

Dr. Kevin Concannon, Exhibition Curator and Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Akron

 

The U.S. vs. John Lennon / Film / Monday 1 October, 6pm

Retama auditorium UC 2.02.02 / UTSA 1604 Campus

The U.S. vs. John Lennon / Film / Thursday 11 October, 7pm

Buena Vista Auditorium / UTSA Downtown Campus

 

Yoko Ono Cut Piece / performed by Ken Little / Friday 26 October, 7pm

Aula Canaria 1.328 Buena Vista Building / UTSA Downtown Campus

 

 

 

Gallery Hours / Monday - Friday 10-4pm / Saturday -Sunday 1-4pm

For more info / art.utsa.edu / 210.458.4391

Exhibition is free and open to public

 

 

This exhibition is organized by the Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, The University of Akron "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

" IMAGINE PEACE

 

Yoko Ono, among the earliest of artists working in the genre known

Conceptual Arts, has consistently employed the theme of peace

and used the medium of advertising in her work since the early 1960s.

Yoko Ono Imagine Peace Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace

explores these aspects of her work over the course of more than

forty years.

 

Three recent pieces - Imagine Peace (Map) (2003/2007); Onochord

(2003/2007); and Imagine Peace Tower (2006/2007) - offer gallery

visitors to an opportunity to participate individually and collectively

with the artist in the realization of work. Consider the world with

fresh eyes as you stamp the phrase "Imagine Peace" on the location

of your choice on maps provided for this purpose. Using postcards

provided send your wishes to the Imagine Peace

Tower in Reykjavik, where they will shine on with eternally more than

900,000 others. Or beam the message "I Love You" to one and all

using the Onochord flashlights. Take a flashlight and an Imagine

Peace button, the artist's gift to you, and carry the message out into the

world. As Ono has often observed, "the dream you dream alone is

just the dream, but the dream we dream together is reality."

 

The exhibition continues in nine locations with Imagine

Peace/Imaginate La Paz billboards across the San Antonio region.

 

YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace is made

possible by the generosity by Bjom's Audio Video-Home Theater, Colleen

Casey and Tim Maloney, Clear Channel Outdoor, Rick Liberto, Smothers

Foundation, and Twin Sisters Bakery & Cafe. "

 

 

 

" John & Yoko's Year of Peace (1969 - 70)

 

Ono's Imagine Peace project carries conceptual and formal

strategies the artist had employer from the earliest years of her

career, not only in her seminal solo works, but in her collaborations

with John Lennon. In 1965, she created works specifically for the

advertising pages of The New York Arts Calendar. Picking up from

her Instructions for Paintings, a 1962 exhibition at Tokyo's Sogetsu Art

Center in which she exhibited written texts on the gallery walls

designed to inspire viewers to create the described images in their

minds, Ono created purely conceptual exhibitions with her

Is Real Gallery works.

 

The theme of peace is also evident in works sush as White Chess Set,

recreated here as Play It By Trust (Garden Set version) (1966/2007).

Lennon's songwriting during this period had shifted from more

conventional themes of romantic love to grander anthems for the

Flower Power generation. The Baetles' worldwide satellite broadcast

of Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" in the summer of 1967 featured a

parade of signs with the word "love" in multiple languages.

 

The couple's most famous collaborative works, the Bed-Ins (1969)

and the War Is Over! campaign (1969 - 1970), were conceived as

elements of a large peace advertising campaign. The Bed-Ins took

advantage of the inordinate amount of press attention the couple

received by inviting the world press to their honeymoon suite where

they talked about peace! Ono told Penthouse magazine's Charles

Childs: "Many other people who are rich are using their money for

something they want. They promote soap, use advertising

propaganda, what have you. We intend to do the same."

 

In December of 1969, they launched their War Is Over! campaign, a

project that included billboards and posters in 11 cities of the world

simply declaring "War Is Over! If You Want It. Happy Christmas from

John & Yoko." As with Ono's earliest instruction pieces, viewers were

invited to transform their dreams into reality. Ono has explained,

"All my work is a form of wishing." "

 

 

 

YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace

September 26th - October 28th, 2007

UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History

The University of Texas at San Antonio

 

 

 

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