Sounds and Visions - 100 records

Record collection of the Abattoirs Library

In recent years, the return of a taste for vinyl has spread to artists. This presentation of the collection reflects this, from the illustrations of the covers, to the musician or composer, or the actual record or the turntable itself.

Since the very beginning of the 1960s, the artist's book has accompanied the transformations of contemporary art. Complementing the collection of works from Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, the Library's collection of artist's books, which today includes more than 3,500 works, reflects these transformations and underlines the primordial place of the written word, the document and the book in today's art. Among these works, the Library holds nearly one hundred records that are being exhibited for the first time.

If music has always inspired painters, artistic and musical modernities have forged close links at the turn of the century, accompanying artistic transformations, from abstraction to performance art. The discs give an account of this rich interaction with, for example, astonishing recorded lectures by Yves Klein and the well-known banana cover designed by Andy Warhol for the Velvet Underground.

List of all the vinyls in the exhibition.