In London gibt's eine Ausstellung bis zum 09.01.2011 unter dem Namen "The art of the album exhibition", präsentiert u.a. von The Real World.
In diesem Zusammenhang sind hochwertige Drucke der Cover, die von Peter handsigniert sind, käuflich zu erwerben. Da diese in limitierer Auflage von 100 Stück aufgelegt wurden,
ist die Angelegenheit ein wenig kostenintensiv. Die Preise beginnen bei 599,-- brit.Pounds. 
Näheres dazu nachfolgend.
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The Art of the Album - Presented by Real World and Hypergallery
The Art of the Album - Presented by Real World and Hypergallery
We have received news that Peter Gabriel's album covers are now featured as fine art prints. We thought you may be interested in finding out more, so we thought we would also pass on the information that we have received.
The fine art prints are available to view and purchase online together with other seminal album cover art and also are on view in The Art of the Album Exhibition until January 9th 2011. The Exhibition is held at Gallery@Oxo, Oxo Tower, South Bank, London - 11am to 6pm daily (4pm Christmas Eve and New Years Eve).
“I’ve always loved artwork and album art. I think it’s been a huge p art of what people identify and feel about the music and the records. I used to love gatefold sleeves...when you would sit with a new record and open it up it was just a precious moment. Now we’ve gone into this digital world a lot of that has been lost.”
“We’ve being looking at ways of getting quality prints of the artwork for a long time and I’m happy now it has happened. A lot of the album art has been turned into beautiful fine art prints, and they have been put together in an exhibition in the Oxo Gallery. With a lot of other great album art from Bowie, Beatles, Ian Dury, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and Paul Weller, there’s a really good mixture. We thought it would be much more interesting than just having my stuff there. ...So for those of you passing by on the South Bank that will be an interesting diversion.” - Peter Gabriel
Original album art includes: The Beatles, David Bowie, The Who, Ian Dury, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Paul Weller, Sex Pistols, Louis Armstrong and much more, including unique pieces never seen before.
Peter Gabriel: Album Art - A series of limited editions of prints of Gabriel's album images. There are fifteen pictures in all, covering 35 years of recording. Each uses the finest Giclee printing methods on heavyweight paper. Each is signed in pencil by Gabriel and the artists involved. Gabriel's album sleeves have long been celebrated for their startling, instantly identifiable style and creative energy.
Ever since Peter Gabriel 1 (aka Car) in 1974, his cover art has been created in collaboration with some of the world's foremost artists, sculptors and photographers.
What’s intriguing is that (particularly with the earlier works) the images are as hi-tech and as fresh as anything produced today, but the ways in which they were created were lo-tech and labour intensive and shaped some of the tricks of today’s computer-generated graphic Photoshop environment. In “Scratch”: Gabriel’s outstretched fingers tear away the cover. This is a 35mm black and white still, with torn strips of paper glued on top. It was then re-photographed; the new shot was meticulously tippexed to disguise the rougher joins. It was then photographed yet again to produce the end result. Today, a similar effect would involve a basic design program and a lot of messing around, but it could never achieve the same result.
“Us” took two days to cut and paste all the elements (which included stage sets from Robert Lepage) and a further two weeks to complete. The mix of images and rendered surfaces was created using Version 1.0 of Photoshop on a desktop Mac with no RAM and just 20mb of internal memory.
The stories that attach to the creation of the images are as unusual as the images themselves: studios stuffed with bendy mirrors to morph Gabriel’s face, low grade prints from Boots 1-hour processors, back-yard photo shoots, and on one famous occasion (for “Ovo”) the building of a nest on a lake which was subsequently burnt by an unwitting gardener who thought it was just a heap of discarded wood.
For each cover, there are one hundred 19” x 19” prints (some sizes vary) starting price £599, and just twenty-five 28” x 28” prints (some sizes vary) starting price £999. Same number sets can be obtained
For more information and PG video:
To purchase visit:
WOMAD Shop | Limited Edition Fine Art Prints
Hypergallery.com - Fine art prints
Peter Gabriel Limited Edition Artwork - Hypergallery
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