The exhibition draws it's name from Storm's recent book of the same name.

Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
Storm Thorgerson 2009
Edition: 50
Print: Fine art limited edition giclee
Printed on Hahnemuhle paper
by Stuart Nicholls at Rock Archive London.
Signed, titled and numbered by Storm.

“Only Revolutions is a title borrowed from a book which told the tale of a broken relationship between a man and a woman from both sides. At the outset I was talking to Dan about revolutions - is real change only feasible through revolution? - and how the  participants were often represented by flags and how those flags became very important and symbolic. And he said ‘gags that become flags’, and talked about how prisoners of revolution would be gagged, and how these bits of material might become the flags of revolution but just much bigger, emblematic rather than actual. Such a great idea Dan, mostly because I could see it in my mind immediately, humongously large flags blowing in the wind, billowing and undulating in extraordinary shapes.” Storm Thorgerson

The Steve Miller Band - Let your Hair Down
StormStudios 2010
Edition: 120
Print: Fine art limited edition giclee print.
Printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag
Watercolour Paper by Stuart Nicholls at Rockarchive.
Signed and numbered by Storm.

“When asked what the album was about Steve replied ‘Having a party’. I pressed him for more. ‘It’s about having a good time”. I thought we needed an image or a design that is not about having a good time, but about giving you a good time, there and then. I guess, simply put, an image that makes you smile a little when you look at it. On seeing the design Steve said ‘I like this but I don’t get it. Why does the rabbit need a ladder to get up?’ I said ‘No, it’s a hare, and the ladder is not for going up but for coming down, as in ‘Let your hair down’,which we all know is an expression for having a good time. It’s both metaphor and not real, because the bald man has no hair’.” Storm Thorgerson

The Steve Miller Band - Bingo
StormStudios 2010
Edition: 50
Print: Fine art limited edition giclée in
pigment inks on Fourdrinier Heritage 315gsm.
Printed by Senecio and signed,
titled and numbered by Storm.

“We saw Steve Miller playing a concert in Oakland exchanging riffs with 2 different guitarists on 2 different songs and it made us think of multiple exchanges between different types of instruments in different types of music - rock, jazz and blues - as a common, if not fundamental factor, a bit like exchanging rhymes. Our design tries to visually represent this ‘duelling’ using cowboys in a cowboy town, exchanging not bullets from guns but using objects that sound the same (pear, chair, teddy bear) or look the same (circles), known to us as Rhyming Showdown and apt as Steve comes from Texas.” Storm Thorgerson

Events associated with the exhibition

6 Spin Street, Cape Town

A preview of a feature length documentary which will be launched in Europe later this year and intimate Q & A with Storm Thorgerson

Wed 22  Feb at 6.30 pm and Thurs 23 &  Fri 24th Feb at 8pm

Booking is essential as space is limited.  Contact Kerry Friedmann 082 455 3447.

Ticket prices are R80 and R60 for students (with student card).

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2011/events/event_FS11112

Sat 25 Feb at 10pm - Performance by Machineri

R40 cover charge.

Restaurant is open before the performance and there is a cash bar.

6 Spin Street Restaurant, Cape Town  - Tel  021 461 0666

Open Mon to Sat from 8.30am - Kitchen closes at 10.15pm

www.6spinstreet.co.za