The legend of Radiohead is shown – Mondo – Arte.it

World – There is an ultrasound that resonates in the Spirit, even before the notes solve: it is the restless beat of the RadioheadA music that has marked all generations with its ability to transform fears, visions and vulnerability into solid things.

By the dystopian architectures of Okay, computer on the icy mestels of Kid AEach album has opened a passage about worlds that are suspended between fear and wonder. Now the same atmospheres find a concrete visual form forAshmolean Musium de Oxfordwhich hosts until January 11, 2026 This is what you getThe first major exhibition dedicated to the artistic universe of Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, makers of the images that have accompanied legendary music for more than thirty years.

More than 180 works – from the original paintings for album covers to digital compositions, engravings, drawings and non -published texts – Tell a creative dialogue that started in 1994 with My iron lung one The turnsWhen the two, then friends and students, experience pixelate images that were obtained by filming and photographing a Reanimation Panquin. The exhibition, organized in chronological order, opens with a monumental wall of LP covers, every result of a complex visual project that extended to booklets, vinyls, merchandisingen and websites, which reveal the total creative freedom that the band has always enjoyed.

Along the way the technical challenges and sources of inspiration arise: the use of the computer for OK computer without the “undo” function, the snowy landscapes of child infected by war images, the immersed views on The eraser Inspired by the Boscastle flood, the meditative fascination for the trees of The king of limbs. In addition to the completed works, notebooks and sketches never first first Yorke’s creative process, made from annotated and reworked texts, fragments of sentences that are randomly caught in the recording studio.

The route concludes with the most recent works for A light to attract attention” Wall of eyes one CutBorn during the Pandemie in a small domestic study and also translated into large tapestries in Brussels. “This is what you get” is the story of a unique artistic alliance, in which ticks and sound are woven into a poetic, direct, sometimes ironic language, able to transform musical experience into a vision that remains impressed by the memory as an unforgettable song.