In smaller rooms of both Galerie Lelong and Andrea Rosen Gallery, Ono’s 1966 “Mend Piece
In smaller rooms of both Galerie Lelong and Andrea Rosen Gallery, Ono’s 1966 “Mend Piece” is restaged with long tables cluttered with broken cups and plates, and scissors, tape, rubber cement, and string all available to attempt to reassemble the fragments into a new whole. “Mend with wisdom mend with love. It will mend the earth at the same time,” the wall text states. Interesting side note: Curiously, both of these stations are also joined by espresso bars serving coffee in Ono’s Illy collaboration cups, where gold lines represent the mended cracks from catastrophic events, from Hiroshima to Guernica. The coffee is intended as encouragement to linger, and to give the space the sense of community, but it also has an odd commercialism contrast to the anti-material works.More: Yoko Ono Asks Gallery Visitors to Repair the Impossibly Broken— rw -- source link
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