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Email Page¡Viva La Música!
October 14, 2006- November 25, 2006
Reception: October 14, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Chico Alvarez, Ely Besalel, Warren Flagler, Ron Levine, Lee Marshall, Charlie Rosario, Yogui Rosario, Izzy Sanabria, Manny Vega, Jorge Vargas, Walter Velez
Exit Art
475 10th Ave50 Years of Latin Album Cover Art
WHAT: ¡Viva la Música! explores the evolution of Latin music album cover art over the last 50 years. Taking inspiration from Pablo Yglesias’ recent book Cocinando! 50 Years of Latin Album Cover Art, this exhibition will visually trace the history of Latin identity, culture and aesthetics through the display of over 300 albums. Some well-loved examples of Latin LP jacket design will be sure to inspire feelings of nostalgia, but others will speak to more social and political concerns. ¡Viva la Música! proposes that the album is not only an invitation to dance, but the record jacket is a piece of fine art worthy of serious consideration. In the words of exhibition curator, Pablo Yglesias, "Album covers provide us with a visual companion to the evolving soundtrack of Latin identity". ¡Viva la Música! will feature sexy, colorful, innovative and creative Latin record covers from all the various genres of Latin music including Mambo, Conga, Salsa, Barrio Nuovo and others. Featuring covers by legendary performers such as Machito, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Celia Cruz, and Perez Prado. But most of all, ¡Viva la Música! pays tribute to the numerous graphic artists who often times received very little (if any) credit for their album cover art. Latin LP cover artists include: Chico Alvarez, Ely Besalel, Warren Flagler, Ron Levine, Lee Marshall, Charlie Rosario, Yogui Rosario, Izzy Sanabria, Manny Vega, Jorge Vargas, Walter Velez, and many others.
¡Viva La Musica! will coincide with the Latin Grammies in it’s first-ever year hosted by New York City, that will take place just a few blocks from Exit Art at Madison Square Garden on November 2, 2006.
WHERE: Exit Art’s Fast Track Gallery, 475 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10018 / 212-966-7745 / www.exitart.org
WHEN: Opening Saturday, October 14 7-10pm / October 14-November 25, 2006 / Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 10am-6pm; Friday 10am-8pm; Saturday 12 noon-8pm; Closed Sunday and Monday
WHY: Exit Art has a long history of presenting projects that trace the history of art and design. One of Exit Art’s most celebrated exhibitions, The LP Show (2001), included over 2,500 album covers that followed the history of graphic design for album covers from its beginnings in the 1940’s through contemporary graphics. Comic Power: Independent / Underground Comix, U.S.A. (1993) was one of the largest exhibitions to consider underground comics from the past thirty years, as an art and design form and as an instrument informing popular culture. Comic Power featured the work of over 75 contemporary comic artists including works by R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and others. COUNTERCULTURE: Alternative Information From The Underground Press To The Internet (1996), featured over 2,000 objects that explored the intersection between graphic design and politics in printed materials ranging from early mimeographed sheets from the Berkeley Free Speech movement to the massive network that comprised the underground press (1965-1973), to artist produced periodicals (1968-96).
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