Grace Jones - a human hurricane
For more than 30 years, Grace Jones has been pushing the boundaries of music and performance. Now The Vinyl Factory is hosting her first art exhibition in London – a striking collaboration with light artist Chris Levine
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Your support makes all the difference.A collaboration between Grace Jones and groundbreaking light artist Chris Levine is to be shown to the public for the first time.
Chris Levine is a unique artist with a rare sensibility for the use of light. Renowned for his 3D and still images of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, he has now gone on to create a series of 3D portraits of Grace Jones.
'Stillness at the Speed of Light' will showcase the extraordinary alchemy between the iconic singer and this progressive artist.
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The Vinyl Factory will be taking preorders for the bespoke art & vinyl edition, which includes the Hurricane LP, Grace’s first album of new material in nineteen years.
Limited to just 500 copies, 'Grace Jones by Chris Levine: Hurricane' will be presented in a gatefold sleeve with a screen-printed front cover artwork of Grace Jones by Chris Levine. Inside, along with two super-heavyweight 200-gram records, mastered for vinyl and released on record for the first time, will be a Giclee fine art print of Chris Levine’s ‘Superstar’ image of Grace Jones. In addition, each of these art & vinyl editions will be numbered and signed by both Grace Jones and Chris Levine. This one-off limited edition can be ordered from www.vfeditions.com and is priced at £300.
'Stillness at the Speed of Light' opens at The Vinyl Factory Gallery in Poland Street, London on April 30 and runs until May 15 2010.
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