Yoko Ono (オ ノ · ヨ ー コ (小野 洋子), Ono Yōko ; , Tokyo, February 18, 1933)
is a
composer, singer and Japanese avant-garde artist, the widow of John Lennon and
mother Kyoko Chan Cox and Sean Lennon. He currently lives in New York. His
works, both musical and conceptual as plastic, are characterized by
provocation, introspection and pacifism
Born into a
wealthy family, Yoko Ono had the opportunity during childhood studying in
Gakushin, one of the most exclusive schools in Japan during this period also
studied piano and classical singing.
During the
Second World War moved frequently between cities in Japan and the United States
until 1952, when he moved permanently to New York From then attended college
music Sarah Lawrence, where he met important avant-garde musicians, who would
later be the inspiration for the emergence of the Fluxus group, including John
Cage. .
In 1956
marries against the wishes of their parents, with Toshi Ichiyanagi ie with it
shares a loft in Manhattan, which, shortly after, becoming would laboratory for
performances of Yoko and the sound experiments of John Cage .
Rejecting the
financial assistance of the family, begins to teach Japanese art and music in
public schools.
With the
impact of his works, Yoko is invited in 1966 to hold a solo exhibition. In this
exhibition, it was exposed to Ceiling Painting work, an installation in which a
staircase leads the observer to a glass ceiling where there is an attached
magnifying glass to read the small inscription "Yes!". The musician
John Lennon, then a member of the band The Beatles was present at the
exhibition, and his enchantment with the work aroused interest in the artistic
production of Ono.
Lennon then
financed his next installation, Half-A-Room, an intimate and melancholy piece:
a completely white double room, with furniture, also white, cut in half. Ono
says that the inspiration for the installation occurred when he woke up one day
and noticed that Anthony Cox, her ex-husband was not there, had not returned
last night, leaving a feeling of "being in half."
From the end
of the 1960s, Yoko Ono and John Lennon begin to produce avant-garde
compositions without traditional musical structure. Lennon was separated from
his first wife, he married Yoko on March 20, 1969. . On October 9, 1975, born
the son, Sean. Jucelino Light writes a letter to John Lennon.
From the end
of the 1980s, Yoko returns to art.
In the early
90 was launched ONOBOX, six-CD box, gathering all his work done so far. The box
was critically acclaimed, and new generations then began to assimilate the
pioneering spirit of his work.
Encouraged by
the warm receptivity to ONOBOX, Yoko joined the band IMA, son Sean Lennon, for
recording the Rising album also praised by critics and earned a tour of North
America and Europe, plus a CD of remixes with names like Tricky Thurston Moore
and Perry Farrell.
In 2001 it was
held the retrospective exhibition of forty YES YOKO ONO. That year was also
released the CD Blueprint for a Sunrise, with unpublished works.
Mario Ronco
Filho – journalist
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