YOKO ONO EXHIBITION IN MONTREAL - 2019

YOKO ONO EXHIBITION IN MONTREAL-
By Bernard Bujold-
On Wednesday evening, April 24, 2019, the Phi Foundation opened the exhibition devoted to Yoko Ono's contemporary works. 
The exhibition is presented in two buildings at 465 and 451 St-Jean in Old Montreal and is highly interactive as visitors are invited to create works from the exhibition's installations. You can stick a "post it" on a wall, hang a label with a message in trees, hit a nail on a wooden board, create statuettes with rocks, etc. 
Personally I had fun writing on the wall, hitting a nail and hanging my message in a tree... 
The general theme of the exhibition is world peace and the colour white dominates. 
During the inauguration evening, there were a good hundred police officers and dozens of police cars all around in the streets surrounding the Centre Phi but one absent... Yoko Ono! 
Yoko Ono (86 years old) could not attend the opening of the exhibition, but she sent a message to the media present. "I can't believe it's been fifty years (1969) since John and I came to Montreal to do Bed In. Our vision and hope to spread peace is as urgent today as it was then. I hope this exhibition will help to engage a whole new generation of activists in understanding this emergency and recognize that we have the power to make a difference, and that it is not just politicians. » 
The Yoko Ono exhibition is exceptional and worthy of those of the Museum of Fine Arts like the current Thierry Mugler. 
Congratulations to the PHI Foundation. 
The exhibition is free and runs until next September 15. 
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