小野洋子 Photo by Tom Haller(c)Yoko Ono

展览概念和策划：小野洋子（Yoko Ono）
展览组织：古纳•格瓦拉（Gunnar Kvaran），比利安娜（Biljana Ciric）
主办：可当代艺术中心
协办：挪威奥斯陆Astrup Fearnley现代艺术馆
网络支持：东方视觉
特别鸣谢：上海证大现代艺术馆“介入：艺术生活366天”项目 

展览开幕：2008年11月22日，19:00
展览时间：2008年11月23日至12月15日
新闻发布会：2008年11月21日，15:00
届时艺术家将出席展览开幕和新闻发布会。

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经过天时地利的种种协调，小野洋子在中国的首个个展，终于在可当代艺术中心坎坷开幕，虽然一路曲折，但是这个展览的最终实现，总是能让热爱艺术的所有层面的人，都在忐忑心境的折磨中解脱出来——共同期待并迎接如此分量的当代艺术展览。

小野洋子上世界60年代初崛起于纽约的艺术界，从那时起，她便一直努力重塑自我，创新理念，成为先锋派的排头兵。她的艺术创作跨越了类别且模糊了边界，先后涉猎“激浪派”、前卫艺术、概念艺术、偶发艺术等等；几十年来，小野洋子还在众多的身份之间游走：艺术家、作曲家、诗人、反战激进分子等等。

小野洋子的作品不是在工作室中创作出来的，而是与她个人的生活方式和看待生活的眼光密不可分。她曾写道：“艺术不仅仅是复制生活。从生活中吸收艺术灵感并不代表艺术复制了生活。”小野洋子在当代艺术领域是个独特的人物，全世界有无数人感受过她前所未有的艺术创作。

在国际艺术界，小野洋子的重要性还体现在她崛起于一个女人往往不被认可的年代，尤其她还是一个亚洲人，双重的特别身份使她的艺术贡献弥足珍贵。

可当代艺术中心十分荣幸为您呈现全新展览小野洋子——FLY飞，这也是小野洋子的个展第一次来到中国。展览是一次全面的展现，从她艺术生涯早期作品到如今正在进行的一系列的具有指导性和引领性的艺术构思。本次展览得到了挪威奥斯陆Astrup Fearnley现代艺术馆的大力协助，也是古纳•格瓦拉和可当代艺术中心驻馆策展人比利安娜共同努力的成果。

小野洋子的作品除了被展示在可当代艺术中心的空间以外，还将发散到上海这个城市的各个角落。例如有20幅“小野洋子——FLY飞”展板广告将会在11月布置在上海的地铁沿线。另外，她的多件“说明书式”艺术作品则将被散布在全市各处，有画廊、餐厅、酒吧、商店等等。

小野洋子的作品经常与“激流派”运动有关联，作品的哲学构思则来自佛教、日本俳句、日本能乐等方面，强调对于形式最低限度的束缚和具有暗示意味的比喻。

早在“概念艺术”这一概念兴起之前，小野洋子的作品就十分概念化。她从不会让素材、媒介和方法限制她的艺术创作，相反，她的作品自身就是一个基本理念，她不会从视觉上进一步修饰和阐述，而是通过语言进行描述甚至定义作品，但又给表演者留有演绎的空间。

小野洋子用简单平直的语句设定对象、事件、仪式——这些行为将会由表演者本质上和/或精神上明确清晰地进一步演绎。

语句作为起点，它将小野洋子艺术实践的作品与文学，尤其是诗歌，连接在一起。很多小野洋子作品的研究者都将她的“说明书式”艺术作品和音乐、乐谱联系在一起。但她的“说明”不是诗歌，它们是可视的艺术作品，是一种新的艺术形式，这种艺术脱离或者打破了由艺术家通过材料进行阐释演绎的传统。

小野洋子的艺术杰作触及多个领域，融合了不同的活动、表演、偶发艺术、广告艺术、电影、录像、“说明书式”艺术和音乐。

自从1964年起，小野洋子与广告媒体的合作（最著名的作品可能要数1969年的“战争已经结束（War is Over）”使她能以一个中介的形式把信息传播到更多受众。作品“战争已经结束”是她和约翰•列侬共同创作的，作为两人1969至1970年和平运动的一部分，揭幕于两人在荷兰度过蜜月之后。小野洋子的电影作品则可以大致分为以下几组：激浪派电影，1968年到1971年间与约翰•列侬协作的电影，以及一些电影配乐。

她的概念性摄影作品“妈妈很美（Mommy is Beautiful）”出现在英国利物浦双年展中，展现了一个女子的乳房和阴道，通过描述一个女性胴体上母性的特征，触发个人的记忆，以及触动社会对于这些胴体，也就是女性，不平等的对待。

小野洋子的很多作品，尤其是20世纪80年代以后的作品中，经常出现破坏的举动，之后伴随着对于希望的思考。在这些作品中，艺术家更多地从世界之外的视角进行观察，那些能够吸引观众的力量，并迫使他们去面对多少有些恐怖或惊骇的事件，例如在作品“出口（Exit）”中那样。

约翰•列侬曾经说小野洋子是“世界上最著名而不为人知的艺术家：每个人都知道她的名字，可没有人知道她做了什么”。本次展览就致力于展现这位独一无二人物的成就。如果将小野洋子看作一位艺术家，那我们还只不过肯定了她卓越贡献中的一小部分而已。

关于小野洋子
 
约翰•列侬曾经这样描述小野洋子：“世界上最著名而不为人知的艺术家：每个人都知道她的名字，可没有人知道她做了什么。”

小野洋子在1966年到1982年间共制作了16部电影，用胶片在现实场景中以人为中心地进行真实记录。在1969年，小野洋子嫁给约翰•列侬，在此之前两人就已合作出版一张专辑，取名“未完成音乐一号：两个处子”（Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins）……

约翰•列侬曾将小野洋子写进歌中。当仍为披头士乐队一员时，列侬就写过“约翰与洋子的歌” （The Ballad of John and Yoko）；在另一首献给自己母亲的歌“茱莉雅”（Julia）中，列侬也间接地提到了洋子：”Ocean child calls me, so I sing a song of love”（海的女儿呼唤我，我唱着爱之歌），因为在日语中，“洋子”意为大海的孩子。其他有关洋子的歌有：“我要你（她如此沉重）”I Want You (She's So Heavy)，“别让我失望”（Don't Let Me Down），“走到一起”（Come Together），“幸福是一把温暖的枪”（Happiness Is a Warm Gun），“那么那么那么”（"Well Well Well"），“哦，洋子！”（Oh Yoko!），“我正失去你”（I'm Losing You），“祝福你”（Bless You），以及“亲爱的洋子”（Dear Yoko）。

小野洋子的激进也部分地创造了在1969年到20世纪70年代间的文化历史，促进了那一场席卷全球的国际和平运动。在约翰•列侬被枪杀的当夜，小野洋子刚刚结束了自己后来获得世界声誉的流行代表作“如履薄冰”（Walking On a Thin Ice）的录制。

小野洋子出资修建和维护着纽约中央公园的草莓地纪念园，她和约翰•列侬曾在对街生活，列侬在那里被枪杀。纪念园落成于1985年10月9日，约翰•列侬的45岁生日。

2000年，她在日本崎玉县创建了约翰•列侬博物馆。

2007年10月9日，小野洋子设计了一座新的纪念塔，并取名为和平光塔（Imagine Peace Tower），它位于从冰岛首都雷克雅未克的Skarfabakki 港口驶出约1公里的Videy岛上。每年的10月9日至12月8日，塔座上会亮起光柱，垂直射向天空。

小野洋子在2006年意大利都灵冬季奥运会的开幕式上表演，与其他演员一样身着白色，象征着冬奥会的雪花。她朗诵了一首准备好的自由体诗歌，呼吁世界和平，这首诗就是约翰•列侬为世界和平而作的圣歌“想象”（Imagine）的引子。

小野洋子在MySpace上的个人网页吸引了超过22000名崇拜者，她在Facebook的个人主页同样炙手可热，使她在今日媒体和世界范围内更为人所知。

飞——小野洋子个展

策展人:小野洋子 艺术家:小野洋子 时间:2008-11-22 至 2008-12-15 城市:上海 地点:可.当代艺术中心

Yoko Ono-Fly

Exhibition Concept and Curator: Yoko Ono
Organized by Gunnar Kvaran and Biljana Ciric
Presented by Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts
Partner: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Special Thanks to Intrude 366 Art &Life Project, Zendai MoMA

Exhibition Opening: November 22, 2008, 19:00
Exhibition Period: November 23 to December 15, 2008
Press Conference: November 21, 2008, 15:00
Artist will be present at the opening and press conference.

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From the time of her emergence in the New York art scene in the early 60’s, Yoko Ono has been reinventing herself and the philosophy of her working methods continually, making her a pioneer of avant-garde practices. Her art crosses and blends the boundaries of Fluxus, Conceptual Art, and Happenings, within which she has sustained her many different roles as artist, composer, poet, and antiwar activist for decades.

Yoko Ono's work is not based in a studio practice, but rather closely connected to her way of living and approach to life. She wrote: "Art is not merely a duplication of life. To assimilate art in life is different from art duplicating life." Ono is one of the rare figures in the field of contemporary art that through her unparalleled practice has reached millions over the world.

Her significance on the international art scene as a woman at a time when there weren’t many other woman being recognized for their contributions, and rarely Asian representatives as well, makes her contribution even more unique.
 
Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts is honored to present the exhibition Yoko Ono-Fly, Yoko Ono’s first solo exhibition in China. The show will present Yoko Ono's diverse body of work from the early stages of her career through to her current work based on a series of instructions. The exhibition is organized with assistance from the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Gunnar Kvaran, and Biljana Ciric, the Ke Center’s resident curator.

Running alongside the presentation of Ono’s work in the Ke Center gallery spaces, the exhibition events will be spread throughout the city as well. Yoko Ono's 20 FLY billboard ads will be spread throughout the subway system in Shanghai during the month of November, while her Instruction work will be placed in different venues around city in galleries, restaurants, bars, shops, and so on.

Ono's work is often associated with the Fluxus movement and draws philosophically from such forms as Buddhism, haiku and Noh poetry, emphasizing minimalistic forms and suggestive imagery.

Yoko Ono's work was conceptual before the establishment of Conceptual Art. Instead of letting materials, media and methods lead the way of the creative act, Yoko Ono works form a foundational concept, which she does not elaborate upon visually, but rather with words that are at once a description and a definition, and yet still allow considerable scope for the performer.

Using plain words, the artist sets up objects, events, and rituals—actions that are given a precise elaboration when fulfilled by the performer, materially and/or mentally.

The starting point is the word, which links her practice with literature and in particular to poetry. Many analysts of Yoko Ono's art have rightly wanted to associate her Instructions with music and musical scores. Yoko Ono's Instructions are not poems; they are visual works of art, a new type of art that has escaped or broken away from material elaboration on the part of the artist.

The broad reach of Yoko Ono’s artistic oeuvre brings together various event forms and performances, happenings, advertisement art, film and video, to instructions and music.

Her work with advertising media, which she began in 1964 (of which the most famous piece is probably War is Over, 1969), helped her to reach a wider audience and to adopt the message form as a medium. The piece War is Over, created together with partner John Lennon, was part of the couples Peace Campaign of 1969-1970, launched after their public honeymoon in Holland. As for her films, they can be divided into the groupings: Fluxus films, films in collaboration with Lennon between 1968-1971, and a number of film scores.

Her conceptual photographic work Mommy is Beautiful, showed around the city of Liverpool, England during its Biennale, shows a woman’s breast and vagina, depicting the maternal aspects of the female body and touching upon the personal memories and social stereotypes projected onto these bodies.

An act of destructive is a notion that appears in many of Yoko Ono’s works especially after the 80’s, but most of the time followed by a thought of hope. In these works it’s more about the world seen from an outside perspective, where the artist draws attention to and forces the viewer to confront more or less horrifying events as in the Exit piece.

Once John Lennon said about Yoko Ono that she is “the world’s most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.” This exhibition aims to present the achievement of this unique figure, who if we were to define her as an artist would only result in the limiting of her vast contributions.
 
 
 
Facts about Yoko Ono
 
John Lennon once described her as "the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.”

Ono produced sixteen films between 1966 and 1982 using film to record in real time settings with human presence at their centers. In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married, and by that time the couple had already released a joint album called Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins…

Lennon referred to Ono in many of his songs. While still a member of the Beatles, he wrote: "The Ballad of John and Yoko", and he alluded to her indirectly in "Julia", a song dedicated to his mother, with the lyrics: "Ocean child calls me, so I sing a song of love" (The kanji 洋子, "Yoko", means "ocean child"). Other Lennon songs about Ono are said to include: "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Don't Let Me Down", "Come Together", "Happiness Is a Warm Gun", "Well Well Well", "Oh Yoko!", "I'm Losing You", "Bless You", and "Dear Yoko".

Her activism helped to construct an important part of cultural history in the form of an international peace movement that traveled the world over from 1969 into the 1970's. On the night of John Lennon's death, Ono had just finished recording what was to become widely recognized as her pop masterpiece "Walking On a Thin Ice".

Ono funded the construction and maintenance of the Strawberry Fields Memorial in New York City's Central Park, across from where Ono and Lennon once lived and where John died. It was officially dedicated on October 9, 1985, which would have been his 45th birthday.

In 2000, she founded the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan.

On October 9, 2007, Ono dedicated a new memorial called the Imagine Peace Tower, located on the island of Videy, 1 km outside the Skarfabakki harbor, Reykjavík, Iceland. Each year, between October 9 and December 8, it projects a vertical beam of light high into the sky.

Ono performed at the opening ceremony for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, wearing white like many of the others who performed during the ceremony, to symbolize the snow that makes the Winter Olympics possible. She read a free verse poem from a prepared script calling for peace in the world. The poem was an intro to a performance of the song "Imagine", Lennon's anthem to world peace.

Yoko Ono’s MySpace page gathered more than 22000 admirers, as is the same with her Facebook account, making her even more present in today’s media and world.