Last days to visit the La Grande Madre exhibition, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, promoted by the City of Milan Culture, conceived and produced by the Nicola Trussardi Foundation together with Palazzo Reale for ExpoinCittà 2015, created with the support of BNL BNP Paribas Group, which remains open to the public until Sunday 15 November 2015 in the rooms on the main floor of Palazzo Reale.
For the last week of opening, from Monday 9 to Sunday 15 November, La Grande Madre is enriched with a new work: the installation My Mommy Is Beautiful by Yoko Ono, created for the first time by the artist in 2004 for the Biennale of Liverpool and until now included in the Milanese exhibition only as a digital project, launched last May 10 on the occasion of Mother's Day and which has seen the active involvement of thousands of people from May to today through the web and social networks of all the world. The famous artist invites all spectators to participate in this collective work of hers by inviting visitors to tell and share family affections, the most special ties and the most personal stories on a large white wall located at the entrance to the exhibition at Palazzo Reale, where it will be It is possible to leave one's testimony, tell one's memories, share images and portraits of one's mother, thus creating a spontaneous and popular monument dedicated to the figure of the mother.
At the same time, the #MyMommyIsBeautiful digital project will remain active, promoted in collaboration with Corriere della Sera and 27 Ora: everyone is invited to post and share online on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter images, photographs, memories, thoughts and tributes to their mothers.
Finally, in the last week of opening, all visitors accompanied by their mothers will be entitled to reduced admission, to celebrate with a further small gesture all the real and virtual mothers who have accompanied La Grande Madre in recent months, alongside the tens of thousands of people who have already visited the exhibition, making it an indisputable success with the public and critics.
Yoko Ono (Tokyo, February 18, 1933) is one of the most important artists of our times. In the 2009s, she was one of the first members of Fluxus, and later one of the first artists to explore new forms of expression such as conceptual art, performance and experimental cinema. Pioneer of feminist art, in her long career she has exhibited in the most authoritative museums and events around the world, and has received prestigious awards, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 17. From 7 May to 2015 September 1960 the MoMA – Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted her solo exhibition Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1971–XNUMX.
Through over 400 works, by 139 international artists, writers and directors together with documents and other figurative testimonies - from around twenty museums around the world, as well as from foundations, archives, private collections and galleries - and an exhibition of 2.000 square meters divided into 29 rooms on the first floor of Palazzo Reale, La Grande Madre analyzes the iconography and representation of motherhood in XNUMXth-century art, from the avant-gardes up to the present day, ranging from Umberto Boccioni to Valentine de Saint-Point, from Frida Kahlo to Marcel Duchamp, from Max Ernst to Leonora Carrington, from Dorothea Tanning to André Breton, from Louise Bourgeois to Jeff Koons.
