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Lennon fans can give pieces a chance
10th October 2008, 9:00 WST
Two new limited edition prints of drawings by John Lennon will have their
world premiere at a
Perth exhibition of the former Beatle’s art this month.
Imagine: The Art of John Lennon will include the first release of a
limited edition manuscript
of Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to Give Peace A Chance, written during the
famous Montreal Bed-in
For Peace in 1969.
Speaking from Reykjavik yesterday, on what would have been Lennon’s 68th
birthday, Yoko Ono
Lennon said she chose the new prints, Consult the Stars and Karmic Wheel,
because of their
humour and honesty.
“There’s an incredible power in these pictures,” Ono Lennon said. “John
was very truthful in a
lot of his art. He wanted people to know him, not as some kind of angelic,
perfect person, but
as someone who was trying very hard to be good, not always succeeding, but
always showing his
human side.”
The exhibition will also include drawings from a family trip to Japan in
1977 and a selection of
rare *****c lithographs from the Bag One suite, a honeymoon gift from
Lennon to his wife after
their 1969 wedding in Gibraltar.
Two days into the first public showing of the Bag One drawings in 1970,
police raided the London
Arts Gallery, removing the works on the grounds that they were “indecent
and likely to cause
offence”.
“John and I were in Canada when we heard that Scotland Yard had
confiscated those lithographs,”
Ono Lennon said. “I remember thinking, ‘isn’t this supposed to be the age
of freedom?’ But it
seems people were still a little bit hung up on the idea of the ****d
body.”
Ono Lennon said her husband would often produce his most humorous sketches
when battling
depression.
“John was a very complex character and the humour was a way for him to
survive, to pick himself
up,” she said.
In July, Ono Lennon paid more than $800,000 to buy the original
handwritten lyrics to Give Peace
A Chance at a Christie’s auction in London.
Editions of the manuscript will be limited to 1000 worldwide.
Ono Lennon said the sense of unity and love for family evident in her
husband’s drawings was a
way of bringing people together.
“I think it’s really im****tant for people to get out and look at it,
especially now when so many
people are sitting in their apartments, too scared to go out into the
world. We all seem
frightened of something at the moment, but these drawings tell us that we
must remember love.”
PIP CHRISTMASS
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Although it's not on their web site (yet) this show is at
<www.gallery360.com.au>
which is among the oddest of web sites as I had to really dig to discover
their physical
address. That nice Mr Google gives a better result if you search for:
gallery 360 subiaco
Open from October 24th to November 2nd.
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