Yoko Ono at the MALBA... (Part III)

12:39 p.m.

06/30/16 - During the conference for the pre-opening of the exhibition "Dream Come True", curator Agustín Pérez Rubio explained that Ono simply forwarded her “instructions” and authorized total freedom in the making. This is how the curatorial team had green light to indirectly take over the artist's aesthetic and give shape to the exhibition. A curiosity: the files with the instructions are written in Japanese and are themselves a true artwork.
Yoko Ono also invited other artists to join her and create an exhibition within the exhibition. With water as a theme, the call for the "Water Event" had the following instructions:
Dear fellow artists, I want to ask you to produce a container to bring water to other people, be it to cure their minds (as would be the case for military authorities) or to recognise their courage to express themselves (for popular activists, for example).
It can also be destined to one specific person, town or region desperately needing water (love).
You and I will provide the water. And each artwork will be exhibited at the museum with your inscription.
I hope to have fun working together.
I send you my love and respect.
Y.O. 2016
The artist participated with "Waterdrop Painting", which consists of a bottle (with an eyedropper, inside) that hangs from the ceiling and releases, every now and then, a water drop.
Waterdrop Painting - Version 1, by Yoko Ono (1961)
Among the other artists, a special highlight for Liliana Porter (Buenos Aires, 1941) and Alexander Apóstol (Venezuela, 1969).

Water Event for Yoko Ono, by Liliana Porter (2016)
Water containers / Dimensions variable
For You
Asta los huevos, by Alexander Apóstol (2016)
Installations with horns and faucet / Variable dimensions
Dedicated to those who try and those who succeed in dissolving totalitarianisms. 
This is the end for our tour around Yoko Ono's exhibition. She is an artist who has crossed all the limits of Art, dissolving its uniqueness: it's not important if the artist does the work with her own hands, what matters are the instructions given for its creation. With those instructions, every work is unique.
This is a participative exhibition that blends the Western and Eastern cultures and makes us think through the dematerialisation Ono does of the artwork. 

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