The Spanish graphic designer Pablo Benito has honored some of the worlds best clubs by drawing illustrations of them. The images vary in location and include Berghain, Fabric and a number of clubs in his own country of Spain
Benito started creating images of clubs after producing a print of Valencia’s Sala Barraca as a present for his mother – the long-running venue, formerly a country house, opened in 1965 and was the first club she ever visited. ‘You can’t compare Barraca with Berghain,’ says Benito. ‘Berghain is industrial, cold and dark while Barraca is rural, organic and in the middle of a rice field. But each club has its own essence’
With a windmill on the roof, Paris’ La Machine du Moulin Rouge – a nightclub next door to the iconic Moulin Rouge – has one of the most distinctive exteriors in Benito’s series
It may be long closed, but New York’s Paradise Garage still features in Benito’s print series. The legendary nightclub, home to DJ Larry Levan, ran from 1977-87 and is considered among the most important venues in the history of dance music
In Barcelona, Razzmatazz is a huge downtown venue with an industrial feel and five nightclubs in one building. ‘Unconsciously, I’ve always been interested in architecture,’ says Benito. ‘Both its spaces and the experiences one can have in there’
Another nightclub to take advantage of a disused space is Tresor in Berlin, a techno club which used to occupy an old department store building.
Benito prefers clubs that ‘adapt to their surroundings’, as opposed to the big purpose built venues that began to emerge in the late-90s. This print shows the recently closed Trouw club in Amsterdam, which was housed in a former newspaper printworks.
(via The Guardian)
