"Explosion" will be launched as a major exhibition of rare rock music posters, May 12 to June 8th at The Movie Poster Gallery, London, W1.
Advertising campaigns behind record releases and the promotion of bands is one of popular music’s most creative offshoots, but also one of the most under-valued. Over the years a wealth of compelling graphic design talent has powerfully shaped the public image of singers, bands and record companies.
The anarchic work of Jamie Reid for the Sex Pistols, the industrial-classical pastiches of Peter Saville for Factory Records and the imagined worlds of Roger Dean for Yes created a total visual language and stylistic expression for their bands in an involvement that often went much deeper than mere packaging. Morrissey's visionary concepts for the Smiths record releases will be displayed in their original music poster formats.
 ?? | A??less well known area is Morrissey's own creative inspiration and direction over the teasingly suggestive imagery that so distinguished The Smiths' record sleeves and.....not so well known....posters. One of the most brilliantly conceived visual 'themes' in Pop history, appropriately for Morrissey "they suggest much but admit nothing".
For 1987's single 'Sheila Take A Bow' the cover star was Andy Warhol's transvestite Factory 'Superstar' Candy Darling, in a shot from Warhol's 1971 'Women In Revolt'. Born James Lawrence Slattery, Candy was memorably immortalised in Lou Reed's 'Walk On The Wild Side'.
One polemical exception was conceived for 1985's 'Meat Is Murder'. Morrissey took the famous image of the determinedly non-Aquarian young Vietnam 'grunt' (from Emile de Antonio's 1969 anti-war film 'In the Year of the Pig') whose helmet bore the words "Make War Not Love" and replaced them with a heartful message of his own. |
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Also on exhibit are original music posters of Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Joy Division, New Order, The Clash, The Beatles, The Fall and Elvis Costello.
Many of the posters are rare and have never been shown together in one exhibition.
Lovers of original music posters will find starting prices affordable. For music enthusiasts and collectors everywhere, EXPLOSION is not to be missed.
The Movie Poster Art Gallery, 1 Colville Place, London, W1T 2BG
Tel. 020 7637 7441, Email: mpag@tesco.net, www.mpag.co.uk
For further info click on??-> http://www.rock-explosion.com/ |
