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FONDAZIONE BEVILACQUA LA MASA (PALAZZETTO TITO)
until September 20, 2009
 
07/24/2009
 
(Text by Maria Vittoria Capitanucci)

Along with great visual artist and theorist John Baldessari, this year's Golden Lion Career Award went to Yoko Ono, who has made japanese silence the strenght of the western struggle. A feminist and feminine conceptual performer, Yoko Ono - despite being lost in her mythical partner John Lennon's shadow for too long - still represents one of the figures in contemporary art who best did justice to the role of the woman, the intellectual woman and the complex feminine universe. Her installations enphasize an erudite, detached and poetical thought.

At Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, two completely white chess tables give the sense of time and space, where the work is suspended. The japanese artist involves the visitors once again, this time without performances, but inviting them to write their deepest thoughts, to think back about their mothers, about travel and separation, eventually sectioning and donating herself to the public, almost like a religious icon... to touch after immerging their hand into holy water. A pagan and contemporary ritual.
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