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John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Suite 1742 John Lennon & Yoko Ono Suite 1742 Dossier de Prensa Invierno 2014 JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO: SUITE 1742 FOTOGRAFÍAS DE BRUNO VAGNINI Un ‘Bed-In’ por la Paz La Térmica, Málaga del 23 de enero al 23 de marzo de 2015 Comisarios de la muestra: Mario Martín Pareja & ONO (Maurizio Guidoni, Vittoria Mainoldi y Beatrice Piantanida), con la colaboración de Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales John & Yoko, Montreal, 1969 © Bruno Vagnini La exposición de La Térmica, “John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Suite 1742”, saca a la luz las imágenes de Bruno Vagnini que ilustran uno de los momentos más significativos para la historia, la música y el arte del siglo XX. Dear Friends, In 1969, John and I were so naïve to think that doing the Bed-In would help change the world. Well, it might have. But at the time, we didn’t know. It was good that we filmed it, though. The film is powerful now. What we said then could have been said now. In fact, there are things that we said then in the film, which may give some encouragement and inspiration to the activists of today. Good luck to us all. Let’s remember WAR IS OVER If We Want It. It’s up to us, and nobody else. John would have wanted to say that. Love, yoko Yoko Ono Lennon, New York, USA September 2013 La Térmica Comunicación [email protected] Antonio Rodríguez Molina www.latermicamalaga.com 952 069 164 John Lennon & Yoko Ono Suite 1742 JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO: SUITE 1742 FOTOGRAFÍAS DE BRUNO VAGNINI La Térmica y Contemporánea presentan por vez primera en España “John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Suite 1742”; exposición que recoge las míticas fotografías que Bruno Vagnini realiza el 31 de mayo de 1969 que documen- tan el “Bed-In” desarrollado en la habitación 1742 del Hotel Queen Elizabeth de Montreal por John Lennon y Yoko Ono por la paz. Esta segunda happening-protesta llevada a cabo por la pareja contra la Guerra de Vietnam, se produce después de la primera, una semana antes en Amsterdam, justo tras su boda en Gibraltar. En la “Bed-In” de 7 días (del 26 de mayo al 2 de junio) de Montreal es en la que se graba y retransmite a todo el mundo la mítica canción pacifista “Give Peace A Chance”. Un joven italiano de 19 años, Bruno Vagnini, que estaba cursando Fotografía en la Academia de Bellas Arte de Montreal, es invitado por un conocido a encontrarse con John y Yoko. Estaba tan emocionado que hasta lleva su cámara Nikon comprada unos días antes con un sólo rollo de película en blanco y negro de 36, seguro de no lograr hacer ni una fotografía. En la espera, en la antesala al dormitorio, realiza algunas fotografías a la hija de Yoko, Kyoko, creyendo que dentro del dormitorio no va a poder realizar ninguna fotografía. Después es acom- pañado a la Suite 1742: una suite enorme, pintada de blanco, con libros, folletos esparcidos por todos lados y eslóganes contra la guerra por las paredes. Al fondo, John y Yoko, en pijama, cómodamente sentados en la cama respondiendo a los periodistas. El dormitorio se transforma en un púlpito político y a los que critican esto como una payasada publicitaria, los seguidores del ex-Beatle les responden que se trata de una performance que cuestiona las definiciones de identidad, privacidad y espacio. Vagnini logra hacerle veintiseis fotos a la pareja a pesar de su posición a contraluz, delante de la ventana. Una experiencia que este fotógrafo nunca ha olvidado. Una revisión emocionante de nuestra cultura contemporánea, de la paz y del amor. John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Montreal, 1969 © Bruno Vagnini John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Montreal, 1969 © Bruno Vagnini Serie 1742, Montreal, 1969 © Bruno Vagnini La Térmica Comunicación [email protected] Antonio Rodríguez Molina www.latermicamalaga.com 952 069 164 John Lennon & Yoko Ono Suite 1742 Kyoko, Montreal, 1969 © Bruno Vagnini John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Montreal, 1969 © Bruno Vagnini LA EXPOSICIÓN Casi cinco décadas más tarde esta muestra de La Térmica, comisariada por ONO y Mario Martín Pareja y con la colaboración del profesor de Historia del Arte Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, saca a la luz esas 30 imá- genes que ilustran uno de los momentos más significativos para la historia, la música y el arte del siglo XX. Pero la exposición no se queda en el mero hecho de mostrar estas imágenes realizadas por Vagnini. Concebida como una gran instalación “John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Suite 1742” está formada por 3 espacios claramente diferenciados: en el primero se incluye el texto introductorio de Yoko Ono en el que habla 44 años después sobre ese happening junto a la serie de fotografías de Vagnini. El segundo espacio, de transición, nos introduce en las creaciones conceptuales de John Lennon y Yoko Ono. Así, pues, incluye, además de 2 monitores con fragmentos de las películas y creaciones musicales experimentales de John & Yoko, varias vitrinas con objetos y documentos. A saber: los elementos que com- pusieron el disco conceptual realizado por ambos llamado “Wedding Album”, a finales de ese mismo año, 1969. El disco más atractivo desde el punto de vista objetual, y el más vinculado a la exposición, en tanto que incluye, no solo las fotografías de la boda en Gibraltar y el bed-in que antecedió al de Torontoen el Hotel Hilton de Amsterdam, sino también entrevistas y comentarios de esa experiencia, varias fotografías sueltas, un dossier de prensa, dibujos de Lennon, copia del certificado de matrimonio y hasta un trozo de la tarta de bodas en una bolsa de plástico con la palabra “bagism”. Acompañan esta documentación las fotografías de John y Yoko y de la Plastic Ono Band, de Andrew MacLear, y elementos de la trayectoria conceptual de Yoko Ono anterior a su encuentro con John Lennon a finales de 1966 en la Indica Gallery de Londres; de Lennon (músico, poeta, dibujante, más tarde artista conceptual), en las artes plásticas; y de ambos como grupo artístico conceptual. El éxito de The Beatles en el ámbito musical permitirá a Lennon incursionar en otros escenarios, y publicar una serie de poemas, relatos y obras teatrales, ilustrados por él mismo, y repartidos en dos libros: “In his own Serie 1742, Montreal, 1969 © Bruno Vagnini Plastic Ono Band © Andrew MacLear La Térmica Comunicación [email protected] Antonio Rodríguez Molina www.latermicamalaga.com 952 069 164 John Lennon & Yoko Ono Suite 1742 write” (1964) y “A spaniard in the work” (1965). Ejemplares originales de ambas obras se muestran en esta exposición, cuyas cubiertas cuentan con sendos retratos de Lennon del fotógrafo Robert Freeman, autor de la mayor parte de las portadas de los primeros álbumes de los Beatles, desde la blanco y negro de “With The Beatles” (1963) hasta la de “Rubber Soul” (1966). Si una rama potente del vínculo de los Beatles con las artes plásticas la supuso la relación directa con el Pop Art (Peter Blake en la portada del “Sgt. Peppers” y Richard Hamilton, en “White Album”), otra, la del Conceptual Art, llegaría a partir de finales de 1966 con la irrupción en escena de Yoko Ono. Serán los años del sello musical propio de los Beatles, Apple (1968), paradigmatizando un elemento que ya había definido una obra homónima de Ono en 1966, consistente en una manzana colocada sobre un pedestal de plexiglás. Más allá de las significaciones, propuestas, vicisi- tudes y oscuridades del proyecto Apple y de la consideración popular del fin de los Beatles con la irrupción de Yoko en la escena, nos interesa centrar la atención en producciones conceptuales como el primer disco en solitario de Lennon, junto a Ono, bajo el título de “Unfinished Music Nº 1. Two Virgins” (1968), el de la cubierta donde se ve a ambos desnudos, y para el que se vieron obligados a aceptar que fuera distribuida dentro de una funda marrón. Un apartado importante en estas vitrinas es el referido a un sello subsidiario de Apple, el nominado “Zapple”, variante experimental de efímera duración, extendida entre octubre de 1968 y junio del año siguiente, en el que solamente se publicaron dos álbumes, en 1969: “Unfinished Music Nº 2. Life with the lions”, de John & Yoko y “Electronic Sound”, de George Harrison. Finalmente, el tercer y último espacio es el que muestra una blanquísima e inmaculada cama de matrimonio sobre la que se proyecta el vídeo “Give Peace a Chance” y el documental “Bed Peace” grabado en aquellos días. Flanquean dicho lecho una instalación repetitiva con los carteles creados con la leyenda en blanco y negro “War Is Over!”. “Unfinished Music Nº 1. Two Virgins” (1968) y “Unfinished Music Nº 2. Life with the lions” (1969), de John Lennon & Yoko Ono; “Fly” (1971), de Yoko Ono; y “Wedding Album” (1969), de John Lennon & Yoko Ono La Térmica Comunicación [email protected] Antonio Rodríguez Molina www.latermicamalaga.com 952 069 164 John Lennon & Yoko Ono Suite 1742 “La luz fue la primera cosa que me golpeó de forma particular. Pasar de una habitación sin ventanas e iluminada artificialmente a un ventanal tan largo como la pared fue como pasar de la noche al pleno día. Toda la habitación estaba pintada de blanco. Apoyados en los cristales de la ventana, sobre el marco, había libros, una taza de café, floreros y un osito de peluche. Con cinta adhesiva estaban pegados folios con eslóganes que versaban sobre el amor y la paz. Esta galería de arte seguía por las paredes de la habitación junto con portadas de discos. Sobre la cama, rigurosamente blanca, estaban cómodamente acostados John y Yoko respondiendo a las preguntas de un pequeño grupito de jóvenes.“ Bruno Vagnini LOS ARTISTAS Bruno Vagnini Bruno Vagnini (Italia, 1950) se acerca a la fotografía desde muy joven profundizando en esta técnica frecuentando la Academia de Bellas Artes de Montreal donde sigue el curso bienal de fotografía.
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