Fermo: the vinyl exhibition curated by Alessandro Biocca has been extended until November 17th at Palazzo dei Priori

The extraordinary exhibition of vinyl records at Palazzo dei Priori in Fermo is enchanting everyone, young people and adults, enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts. The great demand, especially from schools, has led to the extension being signed until Sunday 17 November 2024to allow many others to admire the over 230 vinyl covers selected by only private collection of Alessandro Biocca, composed of more than 8500 vinyls the result of meticulous research, collection and cataloging conducted over 35 years. Almost 12,000 visitors have visited the exhibition in recent months “MUSIC TO WATCH. Author covers and vinyls from 1940 to today”. Andy Wharol and his cover with the famous peelable banana, and then Mirò, Oliviero Toscani, Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, Milo Manara, Banksy. These are just some of the artists who created these fascinating covers, many of which have become cult covers of rock, jazz and pop music.

The show got it great appreciation with a continuously growing turnout coming both from the territory and from outside the region, for the free, extraordinary and sometimes provocative way of communicating of the vinyl covers, between energy and imagination. Also successful educational dedicated to schools of all levels, including laboratory activity with the creation of your own author’s cover. To immerse yourself even better in the vinyl production atmosphere were also organized themed guided tourssome extraordinarily accompanied by the curator Alessandro Biocca who enthralled the participants with insights, curious news and the vision of additional covers not present in the exhibition. The attention given by the regional and national media is also noteworthy. The exhibition is promoted by the Municipality of Fermo and organized by Maggioli Cultura e Turismo.

“Music to watch” presents an artistic-musical journey through seven sectionsreferring to the categories of Alessandro Biocca’s collection: first covers, photos, graphics, drawing and comics, contemporary art, censored, printing errors. The exhibition touches on multiple musical genres, from pop art and surrealist artists to great photographers, illustrators and cartoonists and offers an overview of the history of music and modern and contemporary art from the 1940s to today.

The LPs of the greatest interpreters of Italian and international music are not to be missed on display: Lucio Dalla, Roberto Vecchioni, Fabrizio De Andrè, Beatles, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Massive Attack, Queen, Patti Smith, Lady Gaga…

The curator and collector Alessandro Biocca explains: «The real lack, which no digital device will ever be able to fill, is that which is given by the visual experience. The one given away by the cover of a record and which had its greatest peak in the period from 1948 to 1982, that is, in the parable that begins when the LP was invented and ends when the first Compact Disc was presented. New Wave was the last musical genre to exploit this glorious potential».

Since the 1950s, artists of the most disparate genres have tried their hand at author’s covers which, more and more often, take on an equal role with the music they accompany. Images that sometimes clash with common thinking, be it dictated by a religious or political belief, and in some cases considered threatening enough to come censoredlike the covers of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” or Nirvana’s “Nevermind”. On display are very emblematic cases that are particularly rare to find, with fewer tracks, albums with distorted titles or with cover images grossly retouched.

A section is also dedicated to printing errors. That is, some records which, albeit in very limited quantities and for inexplicable reasons, have entered the market with sensational graphic oversightswhich have made them become cult objects and sought after by collectors all over the world, such as the incorrect copy of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” by Bob Dylan and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” by Queen.

For information: www.fermomusei.it