YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE: Samek billboard
by Yoko Ono
Yoko has created an IMAGINE PEACE billboard as part of the Samek exhibition. It is on view on Pennsylvania Route 15 about one mile north of Interstate Route 80, facing southbound traffic (7.5 miles North of Bucknell).
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE
Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
Curated by Kevin Concannon and John Noga
Samek Art Gallery, 3rd Floor, Langone Center, Bucknell University, 701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA.
25 Aug 2008 - 8 Oct 2008.
Open weekdays 11am-5pm. Thurs till 8pm. Sat/Sun 1pm-5pm.
IMAGINE PEACE focuses on the thematic ideals of peace and love, and follows the work of Yoko Ono and John Lennon chronologically as solo artists, as a couple in the 1960s, and also includes Ono's recent solo works.
IMAGINE PEACE will showcase interactive works by Ono which demonstrate her long-standing ambition to involve individuals in the process of achieving peace through the power of imagination.
The exhibition will include installations that are designed to help visitors spread the message of love and peace worldwide through use of stamps, postcards, flashlights, and buttons.
These works include: Play it by Trust; Imagine Peace; Onochord; and the Imagine Peace Tower, in Reykjavik, Iceland, which was dedicated on John Lennon’s birthday, October 9, 2007.
The exhibition will also include photo-documentation of the world-wide broadcast of the Beatles All You Need is Love, and the accompanying parade of signs with the word “love” in several languages; Ono’s all white chess piece, Play It by Trust; Lennon’s lithographs from the Bag One portfolio; Collaborative works, such as their Acorn Event, Bed-In, and the international advertising campaign War is Over! will be represented by films, large-scale photomurals, and lithographs.
Screenings of Ono’s films are planned as well.
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE: Samek billboard
by Yoko Ono
Yoko has created an IMAGINE PEACE billboard as part of the Samek exhibition. It is on view on Pennsylvania Route 15 about one mile north of Interstate Route 80, facing southbound traffic (7.5 miles North of Bucknell).
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE
Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
Curated by Kevin Concannon and John Noga
Samek Art Gallery, 3rd Floor, Langone Center, Bucknell University, 701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA.
25 Aug 2008 - 8 Oct 2008.
Open weekdays 11am-5pm. Thurs till 8pm. Sat/Sun 1pm-5pm.
IMAGINE PEACE focuses on the thematic ideals of peace and love, and follows the work of Yoko Ono and John Lennon chronologically as solo artists, as a couple in the 1960s, and also includes Ono's recent solo works.
IMAGINE PEACE will showcase interactive works by Ono which demonstrate her long-standing ambition to involve individuals in the process of achieving peace through the power of imagination.
The exhibition will include installations that are designed to help visitors spread the message of love and peace worldwide through use of stamps, postcards, flashlights, and buttons.
These works include: Play it by Trust; Imagine Peace; Onochord; and the Imagine Peace Tower, in Reykjavik, Iceland, which was dedicated on John Lennon’s birthday, October 9, 2007.
The exhibition will also include photo-documentation of the world-wide broadcast of the Beatles All You Need is Love, and the accompanying parade of signs with the word “love” in several languages; Ono’s all white chess piece, Play It by Trust; Lennon’s lithographs from the Bag One portfolio; Collaborative works, such as their Acorn Event, Bed-In, and the international advertising campaign War is Over! will be represented by films, large-scale photomurals, and lithographs.
Screenings of Ono’s films are planned as well.