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"Provocative images abound in \u201CHalf-a-Wind,\u201D Yoko Ono\u2019s first comprehensive retrospective in Austria. As early as the mid-1950s, Ono had begun orchestrating conceptual-art performances with her first husband, avant-garde composer Ichiyanagi Toshi. The Kunsthalle Krems museum showcases stills from many of these initial performances\u2014among the pictures on display are a young Ono suspended above the audience in Chair Piece, and the artist stretched across the piano during experimental musician John Cage\u2019s Music Walk.\n\nPinterestFacebookOno with her installation Half-a-Room, 1967. Photo: Clay Perry and \u00A9 Yoko Ono\n\nFor all her seriousness\u2014indeed, Ono appears impossibly somber in the photographs from these early works\u2014the artist also imbues her installations with a puckish humor. In 1967\u2019s Half-a-Room, Ono marries whimsy and an acute sense of loss, presenting a plainly decorated bedroom with nearly every furnishing sawed in half, right down to the jacket and hat hanging on the wall.\n\nPinterestFacebookWar Is Over!, Ono and John Lennon, 1969. Photo: \u00A9 Yoko Ono\n\nOno\u2019s relationship with John Lennon eventually launched her into hypercelebrity, with the couple\u2019s collaborations and publicity stunts making her a household name. A 1969 photograph depicts one of Ono and Lennon\u2019s War Is Over! billboards mounted above a visitor information center in New York City\u2019s Times Square. And, of course, there is visual documentation of the pair holding court during their infamous Bed-Ins for Peace in Montreal and Amsterdam.\n\nPinterestFacebookFrom My Window, La Fortuna, Yoko Ono, 2002. Image: \u00A9 Yoko Ono\n\nIn perhaps the most quietly touching work, Ono superimposes a transparent image of her and Lennon relaxing over their morning coffee and cigarettes onto a photo of a shuttered window in a dark room. In the background are Central Park\u2019s dense treetops and the high-rise apartment buildings beyond. The vignette feels very much like a slowly fading reverie, the shared moment between the collaborators and lovers slipping softly into the distance, as if but a dream.\n\nThrough February 23, 2014, at Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria; kunsthalle.at"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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