Imaginary Concerts Vol. 1

Author: Peter Coffin Series: Imaginary Concerts

Take a dive into Imaginary Concerts, featuring fantasy lineups created by designers, musicians, artists and more, compiled by Peter Coffin.

Take a deep dive into Imaginary Concerts, featuring fantasy lineups created by designers, musicians, artists and more, compiled by Peter Coffin.

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Take a dive into Imaginary Concerts, featuring fantasy lineups created by designers, musicians, artists and more, compiled by Peter Coffin.

Take a deep dive into Imaginary Concerts, featuring fantasy lineups created by designers, musicians, artists and more, compiled by Peter Coffin.

Description

Downtown Los Angeles's Colby Poster Printing Co. famously churned out their iconic "show print" posters from 1946 until 2012. Peter Coffin's Imaginary Concerts grew out of experimenting with the print shop's patent eyeball-attracting inks and exhibiting a series of eighty text-less posters in Colby's tricolor gradient style, allowing the viewer to "what if...?" imaginary line ups into existence. After displaying the posters worldwide, Coffin enticed a handful of artists, authors, and otherwise daydreamers to depict their wildest concert bills in black letterpress. Co-published with Printed Matter, Imaginary Concerts collects and displays over 70 submissions against the hazy, horizontal color bands encouraging your cranium to creep its deepest concert fantasies.

Critic Reviews

“Imagine your dream concert line-up. Heroes you never got to see, bands from far away countries that never seem to tour, or just your absolute favourites you could watch time and time again -It's Nice That”

Imaginary Concerts named one of the best things at the 2017 LA Art Book Fair - Eye on Design, Best Thing at the New York Art Book Fair
Coffin does a masterful job of making graphic wit. It is not parody. It is not a simple joke. It is a kind of hipster graphic poetry that is as fun to read as to view. Since 2008 he’s printed with Colby ads for shows that never happened but somewhere in the imagination actually did. -Print

About the Author

Peter Coffin has mounted over thirty solo exhibitions with museums and galleries including the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC), The Barbican (London), City Hall Park (New York City), and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (San Francisco). Coffin's art can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum, among other institutions. Music looms large in Coffin's work and mind.