8 – 22 July, 2007
“cover – music to graphics” – an exhibition of lp covers with listening station. Guest curator: David Dufour

Curators: Cornelia Lund and Holger Lund, in cooperation with Pulver Records
Guest curator: David Dufour

Lp covers have to fit the music inside, but they also have to look better than every other cover in the shop; both aspects taken together have made creating these covers a cutting edge discipline for designers. It is no wonder that artists like Andy Warhol (eg with his famous banana sleeve art for The Velvet Underground) or Josef Albers, amongst many others, have created ambitious designs in the field.
The historical part of the exhibition “cover – music to graphics” will take a close look at cover designs in which squares are central to the aesthetic. Many designers have taken the fact that the record sleeve itself is a square into account and have put that geometric form to use. The covers will be selected from the record collection of David Dufour, with insightful comments from the collector himself.
Today, the design of record covers remains as important as before, because vinyl – not CD or mp3 – is the format of choice for certain styles of music, think Electro or even Hip Hop. As an example for successful contemporary cover design we will present the internationally renowned label Pulver Records (www.pulver-rec.com) from Stuttgart. This marks a first in-house collaborative show – both Pulver Records and fluctuating images are situated in the same building in Jakobstr. 3.
A turntable station where the records within the covers can be listened to lends an audiovisual element to the exhibition.

Further information: www.pulver-rec.com

Supported by Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart