Good Vibrations

Palazzo delle Papesse - Contemporary Art Center proudly announces its second exhibition of the year, entitled Good Vibrations. Visual arts and rock music.

This group show explores the complex network of relations and reciprocal influences between visual arts and rock music that has characterised much of the artistic research and practise since the Sixties, giving birth to unusual collaborations and an intense phase of experimentation which resounds in the arts of today.

The exhibit aims to illustrate this blending of genres and artistic languages, through the presentation of collaborative works between visual artists and musicians, artworks commissioned by musicians and artists to their counterpart (record sleeves, posters, logos, set and sound design), and several important pieces that somehow deal with Rock music and relate to Pop culture.

Good Vibrations comprehensive - albeit not definitive - list of artworks includes: portraits of Rock icons by Robert Mapplethorpe and Elizabeth Peyton, Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable in collaboration with The Velvet Underground (filmed by Roland Nameth) and a large number of music-inspired pieces by artists such as Martin Creed, Jim Lambie or Tony Oursler - who is premiering in Europe the new installation Sound Digressions in Seven Colours - to cite a few.

An entire section of the show will be devoted to the videoclips shot by visual artists during the last two decades. Also, a rich selection of documents will be exhibited, including record sleeves, studies and preparation drawings.

In coincidence with the opening of the show, Giunti will be launching Marco Pierini's new book by the same title (Good Vibrations available in Italian and English), which offers a wider vision on the themes investigated by the exhibition, proposing perspectives and analysis impossible to be confined within the exhibition space.

Good Vibrations will be accompanied by a rich calendar of screenings of movies and documentaries curated by Alfredo Saitto: this cycle celebrates some of the most important events in Rock history.

Media partners of the project are: Rolling Stone Magazine, EMI Music Italy which will be launching a double CD entitled Good Vibrations (with tracks inspired or dedicated to artists or artworks), and MTV Italy.

During the whole duration of the show several other events are on schedule. Please check our website for regular updates.

Artists on show: Caroline Achaintre, Saadane Afif, Kenneth Anger, John Armleder, Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Cao Fei, Janet Cardiff e George Bures Miller, Anne Collier, Phil Collins, Bruce Conner, Anton Corbijn, Martin Creed, Sam Durant, Pablo Echaurren, Carlo Fei, Rodney Graham, Richard Hamilton, Ray Johnson, Jim Lambie, Judy Linn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Dave Muller, Ronald Nameth, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Elizabeth Peyton, Mimmo Rotella, Aida Ruilova, Mario Schifano, Robert Stanley, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol.

Videoclips by: Doug Aitken, Ron Athey, David Bowie, David Byrne, Anton Corbijn, Chris Cunningham, Jean Paul Goude, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Eiko Ishioka, Pierre et Gilles, Andy Warhol, William Wegmann.

Within the Bookshop series (a cycle of site-specific interventions commissioned by the Palazzo delle Papesse for its bookstore) it will be presented a new project by the Italian duo Botto & Bruno.

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Good Vibrations
Visual arts and rock music

mit Caroline Achaintre, Saadane Afif, Kenneth Anger, John Armleder, Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Cao Fei, Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller, Anne Collier, Phil Collins, Bruce Conner, Anton Corbijn, Martin Creed, Sam Durant, Pablo Echaurren, Carlo Fei, Rodney Graham, Richard Hamilton, Ray Johnson, Jim Lambie, Judy Linn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Dave Muller, Ronald Nameth, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Elizabeth Peyton, Mimmo Rotella, Aida Ruilova, Mario Schifano, Robert Stanley, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol, Doug Aitken, Ron Athey, David Bowie, David Byrne, Anton Corbijn, Chris Cunningham, Jean Paul Goude, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Eiko Ishioka, Pierre et Gilles, Andy Warhol, William Wegman