Dream Come True: Yoko Ono’s first retrospective exhibition in Argentina has already opened its doors and we were there to bring her conceptual and contemporary art closer to you.
The exhibition, curated by Gunnar Kvaran and Agustín Pérez Rubio, is composed by more than80 works of art and it includes objects, videos, installations, and sound records. But, without any doubt, the core are the “Instructions”, a series of simple and poetic messages expressed on different walls that invite the public to perform specific activities: “Spend a whole week laughing”; “Look at the sun till it gets square”, among others.
Each work promotes a dialogue with the audience, which became central in the creation of the artistic object. An artwork, for example, consists of looking at the world through a black sack. In that way, the public itself is art. The same happens with the instruction of looking at the ceiling with a magnifying glass, or the one invites people to get on a stair to look at the sky: the active participation of each person is crucial throughout the whole exposition.
In the call “Arising”, the audience, with Yoko’s guide, is the creator: through the social media, Ono invited women from all Latin America who have been victims of gender violence to share a photograph of her eyes and an anonymous text. Those eyes and texts make up a collective work of art.
And in “Water event”, Yoko gives in the space to a group of Latin American artists specially called for the occasion to show different works of art whose main motif is water. There you can see works of Liliana Porter, Hernán Marina, Ana Gallardo, Amalia Pica, Rosângela Rennó, Runo Lagomarsino, Alexander Apóstol, Alfredo Jaar, Tania Bruguera, Teresa Margolles, Tercerunquinto, and Antonio Caro.
But the exhibition does not finish within MALBA’s walls. Yoko Ono’s proposal gets beyond and reaches the entire city. That’s why since yesterday and to October, Yoko’s instructions will invade 9 de Julio Avenue, the subway, the radio, the social media, and the newspapers. Art gets out of the Museum and expands, because, in the end, that is Yoko’s utmost desire.
When?
Till October 31th 2016.
Where?
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA)- Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415.