Search for the Fountain

Grapefruit has continued to inspire new generations of readers, and especially new generations of artists who are interested in art as ideas and processes, and practices based on scores and instructions.

The fountain is a recurring metaphor in Yoko Ono’s oeuvre, sometimes symbolising a source or something that is in perpetual motion. Perhaps we can even sense a link to fluxus (Latin for flow), the name of the international art movement that Yoko Ono is often associated with, and which developed an entirely new approach to what art can be. Search for the Fountain is a distinct example of how Yoko Ono intentionally leaves the materialisation of her artistic ideas open to interpretation, but also how she assumes that viewers will handle and reinterpret the concept from their own perspectives.

Partcipating artists: Julieta Aranda (Berlin), Ruth Buchanan (Berlin), VALIE EXPORT (Vienna), Lucie Fontaine (Milan), Simone Forti (Los Angeles), Hreinn Fridfinnsson (Amsterdam), Jean-Jacques Lebel (Paris), Maria Lindberg (Gothenburg), J O Mallander (Kisko), Pratchaya Phinthong (Bangkok), Emily Roysdon (Stockholm), Hinrich Sachs (Stockholm/Basel), Tris Vonna Michell (Stockholm), Judi Werthein (Miami) and students from Städelschule, Frankfurt.

Yoko Ono
Search for the Fountain, 2012

Ruth Buchanan
Two Letters, 2006/2012
DVD

Julieta Aranda
∞° / ….° (FROM WHERE TO MEASURE THE OCEAN), 2012
Digital utskrift

Lucie Fontaine
Pink Cut, 2012
Akryl på duk

Pratchaya Phinthong
Untitled, 2009
Färgfotografi typ C, digitalt exponerat

Emily Roysdon
Untitled (MOMS 1), Untitled (MOMS 2), 2001/2012
Färgfotografi typ C, digitalt exponerat

Maria Lindberg
– , 2012
Digitala utskrifter

Simone Forti
I Stand Where a Bear, 2009
Blyerts och bläck på papper

Judi Werthein
REMINDER, 2012
Postit-lappar

VALIE EXPORT
A small “fountain” for Yoko Ono, including a binoculars, which she used as well in her own installations, 2012
Fotoinstallation

J O Mallander
ONCE (there was…..), 2012
Fotografier, vykort, dokument

Hinrich Sachs
Piece (of a), 1992/2012
Enfärgs offsettryck på obestruket papper

Tris Vonna-Michell
apple core, 2012
Offsettryck, ljudfil, hörlurar

Hreinn Fridfinnsson
Mermaids, 2012
Video

Jean-Jacques Lebel
A Fountain For Yoko, 2012
DVD

Yoko Ono
Brunnsfontänen, Österlånggatan, Gamla Stan, 2012
Foto, glas

Erika Landström, Städelschule, Frankfurt
Proposal/Search for the Fountain/Moderna Museet, 2012
Digital utskrift på papper

Calori & Maillard, Städelschule, Frankfurt
Se t´avviene di trattar delle acque consulta prima i´esperienza poi la ragione If you´11 have to treat water consult first experience and then reason
Skulptur, trä

Anina Trösch, Städelschule, Frankfurt