Bilbao’s Guggenheim honours Yoko Ono

A new exhibition in Bilbao’s Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim is honouring conceptual artist Yoko Ono. Ms Ono’s work is being shown at a retrospective exhibition looking at work which spans her 60-year career.

 

The pioneering exhibition features a piece – Painting to Be Stepped On – which was shown at her first solo show in New York in 1961.   

Many of her works are interactive – such as her installations ‘Half-a-Room’ and ‘Moving Mountains’ – and much of her work has been labelled feminist.

Yoko, 81, the former wife of Beatles star John Lennon, has had a tremendous influence on contemporary art.

The Tokyo-born artist uses performance art, music, installations, poems and experimental cinema, as well as traditional art media.  

Lennon once labelled her ‘the world’s most famous unknown artist’.

The Bilbao exhibition will run until September 4. 

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