YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE: featuring John & Yoko’s Year of 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 a selection of Ono’s recent solo works.
Yoko Ono’s career has spanned six decades. Beginning in the 1950s, she has been a pioneer of emerging new art forms, moving freely between genres from avant-garde to pop. Yoko became well known in the 1960s for her Chambers Street loft events which included many fellow Fluxus artists. She continues to be an important conceptual and performance artist today.
YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE will showcase interactive works by Ono that demonstrate her long-standing practice 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 rubber stamps, postcards, flashlights, and buttons. These works include: Imagine Peace (Maps); 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 worldwide broadcast of the Beatles song All You Need Is Love, and the accompanying parade of signs with the word “love” in several languages. Other works featured in the exhibit include Ono’s all white chess set, 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! Screenings of Ono’s films are planned as well.
