More than ever music and art are directly linked by their similar creative approach evolving in the same way through records, posters and flyers artwork. Art gives music a visual dimension as much as music can illustrate art, both linked by a common global image and culture, each complementing the other. As its title simply says The Art of Music brings together fifteen inter-national artists to exhibit their visual interpretation of music...

However good the music is a record will never be a great record, as much as a band will never become an iconic band, without a graphic universe that fits with the music. Without records, posters and flyers artwork, each music style would not have any specific visual iden-tity. From psychedelic rock to rave through to death metal, punk or hip hop, music has brought many talen-

ted artists to the limelight. In the same manner, many artists such as Peter Saville, Pushead and Ray-mond Pettibon gave music artists and record labels another dimen-sion, bringing them to their now legendary status. Nowadays, record covers, concert posters and party flyers are viewed as a modern can-vas by the artists enabling them to express their work and making it travel from hand to hand outside of the traditional art world.

Ill-Studio’s Thomas Subreville has invited these influential artists, each with individual musical in-fluences and consequently varied ways in which to illustrate it, to celebrates this art of music taking it temporarily from people’s hands to being exhibited in a gallery space...

THE ART OF MUSIC

An exhibition curated by ill-studio.

Sept. 06 - 27, 2008

Opening Reception Sept. 6. 20087 pm - 10 pm

Sanghon Kim

The Art of Music reflects upon the profound influence that music has on art and simultaneously art has on music and recognises their common creative approach. The leading idea of the show emphasises the fact that artists tastes in music are always strongly related to their work, illustrated in the exhibi-tions main focus : the imaginary concert posters wall. Each artist has been asked to design the pos-

ter for the concert of his dream, including the line-up of choice and in any venue imaginable whether existing or not.

Each individual artist’s musical influences and consequently diverse ways of illustrating them, offers a wide range of imaginary concerts musically, visually and even geo-graphically.

IMAGINARY CONCERT POSTERS

Josh Petherick is an Australian born artist living in the Nether-lands and working within graphic design, illustration, film and musi-cal disciplines. He has shown his work in gallery spaces from Paris to Tokyo including Mu Foundation, Colette in Paris, National Gal-lery of Victoria, Rocket Gallery in Japan and Bevilacqua La Masa Foun-dation in Venice. As a freelance graphic artist and illustrator Petherick has worked on projects with Vitra Design Museum, Nieves Books, P.A.M., Vans, Tokion Pro-ducts, Arkitip, 2K Shirts and Colab Eyewear and he still finds time to make music and tour record stores appreciating the design wizardry on LP covers. www.joshpetherick.com steven harrington is a LA based ar-tist. Drawing influence from images, fashion and graphics discovered in Time Life Encyclopedias from 1965-1972, thrift stores purchases, and the music of The Moody Blues, Har-rington uses the term «contextual objectivism» to describe his work. Along with fellow artist Justin Krietemeyer he is the co-founder of National Forest Design whose pro-jects include the Urban Outfitters Catalogues, Burton Snowboards and the Nike Ole Mural. Harrington has been busy this year with a par-ticipation in the Arkitip «High-math» group exhibition in Berlin, a collaboration with Kidrobot, a new series of skateboards for Element and his solo show “Our Mountain”

now branched out into photography, music, video and fashion design. In 2001, //DIY launched its own streetwear label, +41 (after Swit-zerland’s international dialling code), which is now sold interna-tionally.www.diy.li

alter is an Australian creative studio run by Jonathan Wallace and Dan Whitford. Whitford is also part of the electro band Cut Copy. Amongst many projects for clients within design, fashion, TV and music, they are in charge of the visual identity and art direction of the record label Modular, home of Wolfmother, The Presets, New Young Pony Club and The Avalanches. Many of their projects involve a network of people across various fields. Oddly like a Sesame Street segment, many of these begin with the letter P… Photography, produc-tion, programming, printing etc. www.alter.com.au

P.a.M. is Perks and Mini, based in Melbourne, Australia. It is the food, music, art, design and bike lovers Shauna. T. and Misha Hollen-bach who draw and form a dimension where all things nice, strange, beautiful and humorous collide. They have a long list of collabo-rators and visionaries in their chosen fields, (music, art, design and fashion), friends that have a mutual understanding of the P.A.M. dimension. They have worked on special projects, collaborations

exhibited in Paris, Milan, Berlin and Barcelona.www.stevenharrington.com ill-studio is a Paris based crea-tive collective working in a many artistic areas including graphic design, photography, typography, illustration, video and motion de-sign. The studio’s originality is to offer its members a working envi-ronment in which they can do their own thing or work together; it’s a melting pot in which influences coalesce to form a group identity. The range of their inspirations goes from Science to 70’s radical architecture, high fashion, outer space and music. They’ve collabora-ted with Nike, The New York Times, Uniqlo, Supreme, Jean Charles de Castelbajac and Trudon to name just a few whilst also accomplishing many personal projects in different creative domains. www.ill-studio.com

//diY is a graphic-design studio founded in 2001 in Lausanne by Phi-lippe Cuendet, Laurence Jaccottet and Ivan Liechti, who all stu-died at Lausanne-based art school ECAL. A multidisciplinary platform based around graphic design, //DIY already has an international repu-tation and counts Apple, Channel 4, Colette, EtniesPlus, Fairtilizer, Flammarion, Nike, Playstation, Red Bull, Rosqo, Sneaker Freaker and Yale University Art Gallery amongst its clients. Always on the lookout for new ideas, the Swiss studio has

include Undercover (Jun Takahashi), Mike Kelley, Fergadelic, Genevieve Gauckler, Deanne Cheuk, Josh Pethe-rick, EYE (Boredoms), Soulwax (2 Many DJ’s), Sofia Prantera (Silas) to name only a few. Hollenbach is also a DJ and producer under the name of Roland Korg.www.perksandmini.com

rYan Waller : Ryan Waller is a de-signer and Art director from Staten Island, New York, he is based in New Haven, Connecticut. In 2003, he graduated from Rhode Island Scho-ol of Design. He publishes a zine called The New College Beat and is currently an active member of Rad Mountain, a design and art collec-tive in Brooklyn, New York. Waller was labeled one of 34 “Young Guns” under the age of 30 by The Art Di-rectors Club and one of “20 under 30” by Print (magazine). He teaches Visual Communications at Pratt Ins-titute. Waller is currently getting his MFA degree from Yale Univer-sity.www.thingmaking.com

so-Me is a Paris based artist and art director of the French record label Ed Banger, home of Jus-tice, DJ Mehdi, Mr Oizo and Uf-fie to name a few. Aside from the label’s record covers and iden-tity, he is responsible for some of the most popular music videos of the past year including Justi-ce’s “D.A.N.C.E.”, “DVNO” and Kanye West’s “Good Life”. So Me has re-cently been exhibited at The Lazy

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Dog and Colette in Paris, Studio Gallery in Toronto, Yes in Tokyo and he has also collaborated with several clothing brands such as Stussy, Sixpack, Nike and Revolver. www.edbangerrecords.com

sanghon kiM is a fine-art and gra-phic-design graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, Sanghon Kim is a talented jack-of-all-trades capa-ble of moving from watercolours to computer generated imagery in his search for a strong visual uni-verse. His art of mixing techniques gives the work an air of mystery; you’re never sure whether you’re looking at a photomontage, computer graphics or an actual drawing. His airy, poetic and unique style has allowed him to adapt to different types of work, including fashion, illustration, typography and gra-phic design. With so many strings to his bow, it should come as no surprise that he’s already a fa-vourite with a number of labels and artists having already worked with Lacoste, Christophe Lemaire, Hermès, Tate Modern, Air and Jane Birkin.www.monsieurlagent.com

la Boca. Inspired, cosmic, crazy and surreal are all words that come up when you discuss the work of La Boca, a design studio speciali-zed in graphic design, film, record covers and fashion. Founded in 2002 by Scot Bendall and Alain de la Mata, the agency is one of the best examples of the UK’s new graphic-design generation. Seduced by La

graphic design field his creativity has appealed to numerous brands. To name just a few, his collaborations include Nike, Wood Wood, Arkitip and TSR Records. In addition he also publishes the magazine/ zine Museum Paper collaborating with many other artists worldwide such as French, Josh Petherick, Deanna Templeton and Patrick O’Dell. Mu-seum Studio has been exhibited in several European cities including Denmark, Germany, Sweden and France. www.museumstudio.se

artus de lavilléon is a Paris based artist as comfortable in the street art scene as in the contem-porary art world. Along with a one month long resident-in-performan-ce inside a display window at Le Printemps, being responsible for an illegal tank drive through the streets of Paris on the occasion of his collaboration with Marc Jacobs and Jeremy Scott at his concept store L´épicerie, he has also il-lustrated the life of Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and collaborated with Yves Saint Laurent, ID Magazi-ne and Levi’s amongst many others. Influenced by the 80’s skateboard/ punk-rock culture, de Lavilleon’s work is primarily black and white illustrations and artistic perfor-mances and has been exhibited in some of the most respected art gal-leries internationally. http://www.patriciadorfmann.com/ar-tist/de-lavilléon/

French is from Aldershot, but now lives in London. He draws pictures

Boca’s taste for maximum risk and its strange, dreamlike work, nu-merous are the artists, magazines and film companies that have called on La Boca’s services, including Simian Mobile Disco, “Amelia’s Ma-gazine”, DC Recordings, The Empe-ror Machine, Sixpack, “Specialten”, Artificial Eye, Lostprophets, Sony BMG, Bullet For My Valentine, Stu-dio Ghibli, and Wichita Recordings.www.laboca.co.uk

sMal & Paze. Native to Munich, Germany Mirko Borsche and Thomas Kartsolis are working within gra-phic design under the name of Smal and Paze. Both have been awarded with several prizes for their work, one of which being the Lead Award Germany in 2007. Responsible for the visual output of Jetzt-Magazi-ne, SZ-Magazine, Mini International and also Gomma Records, the Munich based record label enjoys the re-putation of being one of Germany´s most important and creative music collectives. Once a year they also launch the postermagazine AMORE, a limited t-shirt collection made in collaboration with BEAMS (Tokyo) and MAGNIFIQUE (Los Angeles), and present the annual MONDO GOMMA Pic-ture show, which takes place in a gallery somewhere between Barcelona and Tokyo. www.smalpaze.com

MuseuM studio. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Anders Jandér aka Museum Studio is one the most talented and highly regarded European artists today. Working primarily within the

all day, whilst sitting in his un-der pants, listening to death metal and drinking tea. The first band he ever saw was Nuclear Assault in 1989 and he still wears the tour t-shirt. The last band he saw was Fleshrot in Croydon. He can draw anything he likes and anything he doesn’t like. He loves eating cheap noodles and apples and prefers cold weather. An obsession with metal music informs French’s work that literally draws the line between the magnificent and the repulsi-ve. He has produced work for Paul Smith, Carhartt, Vans, the BBC, 2k Shirts and Silas. www.tapedcopies.com

steFan Marx. Originally from Ham-burg, Germany, Stefan Marx is one of the most active artists on the European scene. Working within illustration, painting and gra-phic design, his very identifia-ble work has been exhibited in many galleries all over the world through group and solo shows, such as Monster Children in Sydney, The Grand Gallery in Zurich and Beams in Tokyo. He has collaborated with 2k, Nieves Books and Cleptomanicxs, Beams T, Mule, Playhouse Records and has also designed the record covers for numerous artists inclu-ding Isolée and DJ Koze. Marx also founded his own clothing brand cal-led The Lousy Livincompany in 1995. www.livincompany.com

VARIOUS EXHIBITED WORKS

In order of appearance : La Boca, Sanghon Kim, Artus de Lavilléon, ill-studio, Ryan Waller, P.A.M, Josh Petherick, Museum Studio, DIY, Alter, Steven Harrington, French, So-Me, Smal & Paze, Stefan Marx.

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