Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010

VINYL – Guy Schraenen’s New Exhibition in Paris @ La Maison Rouge

For all you Vinyl addicts out there in Paris and the rest of the world. British curator and publisher Guy Schraenen will show a display of his collection of almost 800 albums, cassettes, CDs, specialist magazines, reference books, catalogues and artworks from the 1920s onwards.



Here is an excerpt of the press release:

From February 19th to May 16th 2010, la maison rouge presents Vinyl, an exhibition of records and covers compiled by the British collector, publisher and curator Guy Schraenen. For more than 30 years, Guy Schraenen’s fascination with artists’ multiples (objects, catalogues, books, magazines) has led him to amass a unique and highly specialized collection on the theme of sound. Vinyl shows LPs from an acoustic and visual angle to illustrate how artists from the 1920s and throughout the twentieth century have experimented with language and sound. The exhibition presents close to 800 albums alongside tapes, CDs, specialist magazines, reference books, catalogues and artworks. As artists began to work with sound, and as records and covers became media for the visual arts, a new and extremely creative art form appeared...

more info in french at the la maison rouge website here!
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