Hypergallery Announce The Art Of The Album
SPECIAL POP UP SHOW – TWO DAYS ONLY – NOV 23rd & 24th
51 Chiltern Street, London WIU 6LY. 020 74864534
Hypergallery, the company behind limited edition, large, signed (by the designer and the musician), original prints of iconic album art work, are to come out of the ethers for two days only. On Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th November a special exhibition of some of the most stunning album sleeves ever designed will take place at the A&D Gallery, 51 Chiltern Street, W1. The gallery is open 10.30am-7pm on both days. A selection of some of the many large signed prints (by both the designer and the subject) that Hypergallery have available will be on display at the exhibition. The 30+ pictures on show will include seminal covers of the following:
Peter Gabriel (eight different), Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, The Who, Ian Dury, Louis Armstrong, Grateful Dead, Pentangle, Steve Miller Band, Muse, Hokum Boys etc
Hypergallery are continually adding new work to their diverse range of incredible images. Just some of the designers they work with include Peter Corriston, Terry Pastor, John Pasche, Robert Crumb, H R Giger, George Hardie, Trevor Key, Susan Derges, Central Station Studios, Hipgnosis and the incomparable Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Large, original, signed, limited edition prints of music’s most
It was a sad day for many when the CD replaced the LP as the format of choice. The face of music was, literally, changed for ever. But all is not lost. A new company called Hypergallery - Rob Smeaton, Adrian Lack and Andy Wood, with support from Peter Gabriel - came together at the close of 2010 to remedy the situation. Since then they have been working towards the launch, tirelessly building their portfolio of artists and musicians to make Hypergallery the place to buy album cover art. The pictures come as large, numbered and signed prints – signed by the designer and by the musician. Hypergallery have made available some of music’s most iconic images - Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon by Hipgnosis, Peter Corriston’s powerful cover for Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti and Peter Blake’s covers for Paul Weller’s Stanley Road and The Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers both of which are, not surprisingly, almost sold out. To mark the launch of the site a special pop up exhibition of some of the most important works will be held for two days only, November 23rd and 24th, at the A&D Gallery, 51 Chiltern Street, WIU 6LY, 020 7486 4534. In the seven decades they’ve been around album covers have carried some quite outstanding and eclectic imagery. They mark our student days, our holidays, our growing up, our coming of age. But they weren’t just memorable - they were precise, descriptive, evocative, intriguing - and they were a decent size. In 1999 their significance was irrevocably established. A Sunday Times survey of the Top 50 Millennium Masterworks ranked Sir Peter Blake’s design for the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at No.16 (between Chartres Cathedral at 15 and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy at 17) - proof, if ever it were needed, that the album cover as art form had finally come of age. Every decade has its standout designs. Jim Flora was producing wonderful work in the 40s and 50s. The swinging 60s had The Beatles, The Hollies, the Grateful Dead, the Incredible String Band, all reflected in the work of Peter Blake, Simon Posthuma and Gilbert Shelton. The most elaborate and innovative 70s designs saw covers for Yes, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, ELP, David Bowie, T-Rex and 10cc, created by the likes of Peter Corriston, Terry Pastor, John Pasche, Hipgnosis, Robert Crumb, H R Giger and George Hardie. The 80s brought with them a whole slew of brilliant new designers including Trevor Key, Robert Mapplethorpe and Central Station Studios with their innovative work for the Happy Mondays and Black Grape. Peter Gabriel, renowned for his standout album covers both as front man with Genesis and as a solo artist, has played a key part in Hypergallery’s history. A recognised patron of album cover artists, Peter has collaborated with Hypergallery to publish his entire collection of album cover artwork. No small undertaking - it involves work from 14 separate artists and designers, among them the illustrious names of Robert Mapplethorpe, Hipgnosis and Susan Derges. Hypergallery are continually adding new work to their diverse range of incredible images. To celebrate the website launch there will be new prints by H. R. Giger while Peter Corriston is working on a collection of four seminal images he created for the Rolling Stones.
