This exhibition, which will be open to the public until November 24, focuses on the close connection between music and the visual arts that the album covers reveal.
The Chiclana Museum is hosting the exhibition ‘Music through the eyes. Art and rock’ until 24 November. This was announced by the municipal delegate for Culture, Susana Rivas; the director of the Chiclana Museum, Jesús Romero, and the person who had the idea, Paco López. This exhibition will be the first in a series of exhibitions focused on the close link between music and the visual arts that the covers of the records reveal.
It is now almost forgotten that for a long time music circulated through material, physical, tangible and visible media. And that records, to attract attention in shop windows, wore beautiful covers on which top designers and renowned visual artists collaborated. This is what the exhibition that the Museum of Chiclana is now offering is about.
In this first installment, this way of looking at music with different eyes begins with rock music. Along with fundamental works of national and international rock music, works by top-level visual artists. Thus, to the legendary names of Elton John, Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, Rod Stewart, Imán, Triana or Miguel Ríos, are added the names of the authors of illustrations of album covers that everyone remembers, such as Peter Lloyd, Alan Aldrige, Guy Peellaert, Máximo Moreno, Carlos Creus or Julián Molero, among others.
‘Music through the eyes. Art and Rock’ is a visual journey through great works of music through the creations of great visual artists, who turned the covers of these records into works of art. Many people have paintings on their walls at home, but there are also other hidden works of art, perhaps better than those in plain sight, which are not given their importance because they are part of the cover of a record. With the arrival of CDs, DVDs and other formats, vinyl records have gone to a worse place, being abandoned in any corner of the house, given away or thrown into the bin.
“In this new temporary exhibition, the story and the art are found directly on the covers of the music records of all time and which are now making a comeback,” said Susana Rivas, who pointed out that “the covers not only had the function of enveloping the musical work, but were also artistic displays.” “We invite the public to come to the Museum to enjoy this exhibition, which we will have until November 24,” she commented.
Paco López said that “the idea for this exhibition came to me when I saw the last exhibition on the hidden museums of Antonio Marín and María Aguilar”. “I have around a thousand records at home and I haven’t seen any exhibitions about the covers, which were authentic works of art drawn by great artists”, said the person in charge of the exhibition, who thanked the Museo de Chiclana for welcoming the proposal to hold this exhibition.
