Buy directly from the artist. Tape: A retro cassette as art – deep blue pop nostalgia. Christof Hintze series. Blue in a Square - 250 plus artworks collection.
Buy directly from the artist. Tape: A retro cassette as art – deep blue pop nostalgia. Christof Hintze series. Blue in a Square - 250 plus artworks collection.

TAPE

TAPE is a homage to the analog era of the early 1980s. A styl­ized audio cas­sette in sub­dued shades of blue, min­i­mal­ist and iconic. The image evokes mem­o­ries of mix­tapes, best of com­pi­la­tions, tan­gled tape, the Walk­man, and record­ing songs from the radio. In its reduced form, retro meets clar­i­ty. A visual echo of the past, rein­ter­pret­ed in a square format. TAPE is part of the art series Blue in a Square, which includes 250+ artworks.

Tape jam isn’t a vegan delicacy.

For a while, the cas­sette, the tape, was the musi­cal center of grav­i­ty for my gen­er­a­tion. A record­ing off the radio was pure gold, pro­vid­ed the DJ didn’t cut it short or a traf­fic update didn’t crash the song. You held your breath with every take, hoping for a spot­less capture.

But tapes had their quirks. How often did the music stop abrupt­ly with a sudden war­bling sound? Now every mil­lisec­ond count­ed: had the tape snapped, or could you fix the “spaghet­ti” by rewind­ing it with a pencil? It got down­right reck­less in the car: when a tape began to wobble, so did your atten­tion to the road. And yet we cher­ished those cassettes.

The art­work “Tape” is avail­able exclu­sive­ly online via this web­site and our Art Store. Online only. Just fill out the form on this page or send an email with your request, and we’ll reply with a cur­rent, detailed quote.

Canon Fine-Art inkjet print on pre­mi­um Hah­nemüh­le Photo Rag 308 gsm paper. Art­work size freely selec­table: from at least 20 × 20 cm up to 120 × 120 cm. Mount­ed on 2 mm alu­minum Dibond with a white wooden shadow-gap frame. Pricing/quote on request, depend­ing on size and quantity.

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