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From
El Periodico (July 2000) "On July 9th 2000 the touring
exhibition by Yoko Ono will be opened in Museo
Wolf Vostell Malpartida de Cáceres (founded by the German Fluxus artist
Wolf Vostell) in Malpartida de Cáceres and it was re-titled as Yoko Ono
Tajo. Tajo is the name of the river that runs very near Malpartida. Yoko Ono's
work Cleaning Piece / River Bed (1996) will be made with the stones of the Tajo.
"The river is the beginning of something " said the North American artist
Yoko Ono in the exhibition statement she had faxed from New York to the sponsors
of the exhibition. She wants to pay homage to the rivers because they are important
with the role they have always had in the development of the communities. Yoko
Ono came to Spain several months ago to the opening of this same exhibition in
Zaragoza. She was one of the founder members of the Fluxus movement, and she remembers
Wolf Vostell, who founded the Museum in which her exhibition takes place now,
as a good friend: "I met him several times, and he was always very kind and
nice to me. I remember him with a lot of affection. We shared the same artistic
ideas". Yoko Ono already had a few of her works of art in the collection
of Museo Vostell Malpartida, as a part of the collection given to the Museum by
the Maecenas and the art collector Gino Di Maggio. Now she donated her piece Painting
To Hammer A Nail / Cross Version which deals with the question of the artistic
interpretation: "The meaning of the piece is about the fact that the wooden
cross turned into a strong symbol. But in reality it is only a piece of wood.
You are hammering a nail into a symbol or into a piece of wood, depending on your
personal view."
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