Ay-O

Tokyo

Over the Rainbow Once More shows a retrospective of the work of Japanese artist Ay-O covering his entire career, from his early works to the present day.

During the sixties, when everyday things or actions were translated into art, Ay-O received attention for his pioneering installations that he called ‘environments’. As a member of the Fluxus movement, which went beyond the narrow divisions of genre to include musicians, poets and artists, its activities extending to performances and printed works to establish the foundations of today’s diversity of art, he worked with such people as Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik.

Finally, he rebelled against the concept of creating works consisting of lines, instead filling his motifs with the colors of the spectrum, from red to purple, giving birth to his ‘rainbow’ works, becoming famous throughout the world as the ‘rainbow artist’ subsequent to his exhibition at the 1966 Venice Biennale.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

February 4th – May 6th, 2012
4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku
Tokyo 135-0022
Japan

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