This evening, I went to the opening of a new exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon gallery, “This Could Happen To You: Ikon in the 1970s“.
The exhibition celebrates Ikon’s artistic programme from 1970 to 1978, and I particularly enjoyed Peter Sedgley‘s hypnotic Corona and David Hepher‘s No. 21.
David Hepher's 'No 21', painted in 1973, and Becky, who wasn't even born then.
But for me, as a Pink Floyd biographer, the highlight was undoubtedly the chance to see not only Ian Emes’ 1972 animation for the band’s One of These Days, projected onto the wall of a room the size of my living room (and in better quality than the YouTube version below), but also several cells from the animation, allowing close inspection. The film is accompanied by Pink Floyd‘s music (or is that vice versa?); sadly the sound system isn’t up to the job.
I had been told that my new book, Pink Floyd: The Music and The Mystery , would be on sale, but apparently there was a supply issue. Maybe soon?
Ian Emes will be giving a free talk on 18 August (booking essential); the exhibition itself runs until 5 September 2010.
Update: Spelling corrected; it’s “Emes” not “Eames”. Thanks to Matt Hogan of Ikon for pointing that out. Sorry, Ian!
Update 2: I wrote a Wikipedia article about Emes.
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