Graham Dean and David Rhodes in collaboration with aCross the Borders Aachen
 

Painting Music

Live music / visual art

Painting Music is an exciting art performance and a part of Via 2018 / Maastricht and the Maas-Rijn Euregion Cultural Capital of Europe 2018.

British contemporary painter Graham Dean creates monumental watercolours. For this project, he collaborated with guitarist David Rhodes, who used to play with Peter Gabriel in the band Genesis. Both artists improvise and react to one another; Graham Dean paints, while David Rhodes plays “sound landscapes”. One leads the other and then the roles reverse. The performance is filmed and projected onto huge surfaces, creating as it were a living stage in which the public can move through waves of image and sound. Painting Music is literally a cross-border art project, performed in Heerlen as part of Cultura Nova and later at various open air locations in Maastricht.

Graham Dean is a big name on the English contemporary art scene. All of the world's great museums collect his watercolours, and water is a recurring theme in his work. Dean is inspired by the work of Edvard Munch, among many others. Guitarist David Rhodes used to work with artists like Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney, Joan Armatrading and Roy Orbison. He released his album Bittersweet in 2010.

 

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