Sep 9 - Oct 9, 2011 Yoko Ono's Play it by Trust (1966/2011) is an all-white, interactive chessboard that functions as a metaphor for the futility of war and extends the artist's interest in the expressive potential of chance. Ono, Yoko: Play It by Trust (1986-87) Enamel on steel, wood Gift of Samuel Havadtoy, 1993 Keywords Ono, Yoko The Japanese-born artist learned to play the piano and sing when she was young, and studied philosophy at the university.
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Yoko Ono's Play it by Trust (1966/2011) is an all-white, interactive chessboard that functions as a metaphor for the futility of war and extends the artist's interest in the expressive potential of chance. Description Yoko Ono Play It By Trust incised with the artist's signature, title and number 4/8 on the exterior edge of the chessboard painted bronze, in 33 parts Overall: 30 by 30 by 6 1/2 in. 76.2 by 76.2 by 16.5 cm. Executed in 1986-87, this work is number 4 from an edition of 8. Provenance Philip Samuels Fine Art, Clayton, Missouri Created by the conceptual artist and musician Yoko Ono, Play It by Trust is a bewildering chess set. The game, normally a battle between white and black pieces on a black-and-white chequered board, is in all white. By changing the pieces and board to a single colour, Ono radically transforms the game and how it is played, as the players will. PLAY IT BY TRUST aka WHITE CHESS SET (1966) Play it for as long as you can remember who is your opponent and who is your own self. Yoko Ono Yoko Ono, a prolific writer, musician, and artist created her first version of Play it by Trust then known as the White Chess Set in 1966.
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In Play It By Trust (1966/2013), a work that Ono first created in 1966, visitors were invited in pairs - with a friend or a stranger - to play a game of chess. Ono's chess pieces are all uniformly white so that once play commences, the pieces merge and it is difficult to distinguish whose 'side' they are on. Yoko Ono (American/Japanese, born 1933) Title: Play It by Trust, 1966-1998 Medium: MDF painted Size: Size varies Size Notes: Table: 73 x 73 x 73 cm & stools: ea. 44 x 44 x 44 cm Price: Price on Request Provenance: Artist studio Exhibitions: 09/07/2022-10/29/2022 XXs 06/11/2022-07/15/2022 XXs minus Partner 'PLAY IT BY TRUST' by YOKO ONO In the strange times we now inhabit it's really interesting to re-visit the poignant "Play it by Trust" made by artist Yoko Ono in 1966. Otherwise known as 'White Chess Set', consisting of a completely white board and all white pieces, the surreal take on the classic game is thought provoking in many ways. Play It By Trust aka White Chess Set. Ono's work of the mid 1960s veered toward minimalism. This piece, an all-white chessboard, exemplifies that trend in her work, while maintaining a connection with Ono's earlier instructional pieces inspired by Zen Buddhism and Dada (chess was Duchamp's favorite game).. Yoko Ono was the eldest of three.
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Keywords Social trust · Institutions · Welfare state · Leisure · Social inclusion In 1966. Yoko Ono presented an artwork titled Play it by trust. The work is an inter - active white chessboard - both its fields and its figures are fully white. Even though people are encouraged to play chess, the absence of coloured fields and figures YOKO ONO's first American retrospective, Y E S YOKO ONO, comes to the MIT List Visual Arts Center on October 18, 2001. The exhibition, organized by the Japan Society in New York City, has been remarkably popular, attracting over 150,000 visitors to its recent presentation in Minneapolis. It features approximately 150 works from the 1960s to.
Play it by Trust incised with artist's signature and number 'Yoko Ono 2/8' (edge of chessboard) and incised with title twice 'PLAY IT BY TRUST' (on opposite ends of chessboard) 33 elements--painted bronze 30 x 30 x 7½ in. (76.2 x 76.2 x 19 cm.) Executed in 1986-1987. This work is number two from an edition of eight. Provenance Play It By Trust Yoko Ono (b. 1933) Marble dust, concrete 36 x 198 x 198, 1999. Ono's "Play It By Trust" is a large marble and concrete chess set installed outside at LongHouse Reserve, founded by Jack Lenor Larsen to exemplify living with art in all forms, through its collections, gardens and outdoor sculpture. Featuring two sides of.
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To download press images, visit tate.org.uk/press. Listings Information. YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND. 15 February - 1 September 2024. Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG; Open daily 10.00-18.00. Tickets available at tate.org.uk and +44 (0)20 7887 8888. Follow @Tate #YokoOno. Related publications. Yoko Ono. @yokoono. PLAY IT BY TRUST aka WHITE CHESS SET (1966) Play it for as long as you can remember who is your opponent and who is your own self. y.o. 1966. 5:00 PM · Jul 23, 2023.
