An exhibition in Rimini shows us vinyl covers made by leading contemporary artists

The Fellini Museum at Castel Sismondo in Rimini is hosting until Jan. 5 the exhibition From Picasso to Warhol - The Vinyl Covers of the Great Masters, an exhibition of artists’ vinyls that, ranging from Matisse to Basquiat from Jean Dubuffet to Joseph Beuys, spans the entire history of modern and contemporary art.

The exhibition, organized by Blu&Blu Network and Diffusione Italia International Group and curated by Vincenzo and Giorgia Sanfo, with the collaboration of Alessandra Mammì, Red Ronnie and Sergio Secondiano Sacchi, transports the visitor to a world, that of vinyl covers, which from the 1940s to the present has revolutionized contemporary graphics and the way of promoting music.

On display are more than 150 mythical artist covers made with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and art graphics, drawing on the artistic expression of great masters such as Picasso, Mirò, Warhol, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Miguel Barcelo, Tapies, Keith Haring, the Italians Mimmo Paladino, Marco Lodola, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Francesco Clémente, Marco Nereo Rotelli, Ferruccio D’Angelo, and Gilberto Zorio. But also with the contribution of great photographers such as Araki, Mapplethorpe, Luigi Ghirri and important illustrators such as Guido Crepax, Milo Manara and many others.

The formal solutions of a container, which has a well-defined dimension and a specific use, forced artists to create, while using their own personal style, images that sometimes triggered genuine revolutions in the art world and beyond. As happened, for example, to Andy Warhol who, through music covers, understood the great communicative power of the serial reproducibility of a work. From Picasso to Warhol - The Vinyl Covers of the Great Masters will present almost all of Warhol’s work in this sphere from his first timid attempts dating back to the 1940s and mediated by Ben Shan, to his last cover, created a few months before his death for MTV.

The exhibition, which starts with some works by Toulouse Lautrec, the forerunner of artists devoted to musical illustrations, documents in an exemplarily comprehensive way the research of some of the greatest protagonists of art. Among the authors are also Salvador Dali and Magritte, Jenny Saville, Victor Vasarely, up to Ai Wei Wei, Gilbert & George, Julian Schnabel, in a journey from the 1930s to the present day crossing styles and movements. Among the artists on display is Robert Rauchenberg with his modular cover designed for the Talking Heads album Speaking in Tongues.

The exhibition also tells of the important collaborations that have taken place between visual art artists and musicians and singers. That between Lady Gaga and Jeff Koons, for example, of the Rolling Stones with Andy Warhol, of Bruce Springsteen and Annie Leibovitz.

The exhibition is sponsored by the City of Rimini, FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano and Club Tenco.

For all information, you can visit the official website of the Fellini Museum.

An exhibition in Rimini shows us vinyl covers made by leading contemporary artists

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