Whitworth Art Gallery promotes new exhibition
Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery has worked with Creative Concern to promote a new exhibition of wallpapers by artists including Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst.
The Walls are Talking exhibition is billed as the first of its kind in the UK and features wallpapers designed by more than 30 internationally-known artists.
Invitations, external banners, digital imagery and the cover of the Whitworth's event programme will be used to promote the exhibition, which opens on February 6.
Manchester-based Creative Concern worked with the city's creative director, Peter Saville, and photographer Graeme Cooper to produce the artwork.
The result is a portrait of a face with its mouth torn away to reveal a layer of wallpaper.
“We focused on the act of talking as the key element behind the exhibition’s themes - subversion, sexuality and imprisonment - and the visuals directly express losing your right to speak," said Rob Sanderson, Creative Concern's creative director. "The focus on the mouth, or at least the removal of it, reflects this and is implicitly erotic."
The exposed wallpaper design was created by overlaying and blending two of the papers from the show.