Hyper!

What happens when musicians make use of ideas and strategies from the art world? And what kind of pictures result when painters are influenced by music? To be interested in other people?s lives, to follow the unknown, to copy it, to use it in one?s own work ? in short, to cross-map between the worlds of music and the visual arts: this is the subject of the exhibition and the catalogue HYPER! A JOURNEY INTO ART AND MUSIC curated by Max Dax, the former editor-in-chief of Spex and Electronic Beats. The book will include classic works such as Peter Saville?s ground-breaking album cover for New Order?s 1983 masterpiece 'Power, Corruption and Lies' and the narrative, minimalist imagery of Emil Schult on which the cover of Kraftwerk?s 1974 album 'Autobahn' was based, and Cyprien Gaillard?s acclaimed 3D installation 'Night Life' from 2015. The influence of Richard Wagner on the work of the performance artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010, will be shown, as well as a related video installation with a minute-opera by Alexander Kluge.