The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, a traveling retrospective featuring artifacts and artwork from the rock legends’ entire tenure, will make its U.S. debut this August with a four-month residency at a Los Angeles museum.
Imaginatively conceived, fascinatingly curated, beautifully designed and stunningly realised. The Pink Floyd exhibition is something of an audio-visual tour de force. A museum that has become adept at putting pop culture in a highbrow gallery space
To mark 50 years since the band released their first single Arnold Layne, and over 200 million record sales later, here's The Pink Floyd Exhibition. Their Moral Remains experience will be a spectacular and unparalleled audio-visual journey through Pink Floyd’s unique and extraordinary worlds. Chronicling the music, design, and staging of the band, from their debut in the 1960s through to the present day.
The exhibition marks the first collaboration in decades of Pink Floyd’s remaining members and is promoted by Michael Cohl and Iconic Entertainment Studios. Tickets go on sale at 10:0am, Wednesday 31 August via the V&A and other ticketing partners.
The exhibition, which debuted at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in 2017, will open at Los Angeles’ Vogue Multicultural Museum beginning August 3rd and conclude its residency on November 28th. Visit the VMMLA site for ticket information.
A&V MUSEUM celebrates Pink Floyd’s place in history as the cultural landscape changed throughout the 1960s and beyond. Pink Floyd occupied a distinctive experimental space and were the foremost exponents of a psychedelic movement that changed the understanding of music forever. They became one of the most important groups in contemporary music.
In a glass cabinet, however, you can find one small Polaroid of a plump, bald, unassuming fellow, which close examination reveals to be founding member Syd Barrett visiting Abbey Road Studio
Pink Floyd have produced some of the most iconic imagery in popular culture: from pigs flying over Battersea Power Station. The Dark Side of the Moon prism, cows, marching hammers to giant inflatable teachers. Their vision brought to life by creative individuals such as m
odern surrealist and long-time collaborator Storm Thorgerson. Satirical illustrator Gerald Scarfe and psychedelic lighting pioneer Peter Wynne-Wilson.
The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, with sonic experience by Sennheiser, will celebrate the band’s era-defining work in composition, staging, design, film, music technology, graphic design and photography.
It will feature more than 350 objects and artefacts including never-before-seen material. Presented alongside works from the V&A’s outstanding collections of art, design, architecture and performance.
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Highlights will include spectacular set and construction pieces from some of Pink Floyd’s most innovative and legendary album covers and stage performances. This including The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall and The Division Bell, instruments, music technology, original designs, architectural drawings, handwritten lyrics and psychedelic prints and posters.
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At the exhibition, visitors will have the unique opportunity to experience never-before-seen classic Pink Floyd concert footage and a custom-designed laser light show.
As it is, the exhibition fades off into empty spectacle towards the close, suffering much the same fate as Pink Floyd’s career. It is hard not to conclude that chief lyricist Roger Waters was right, and that Floyd should have ended when he left in 1985.
Martin Roth, Director of the V&A said: “The V&A is perfectly placed to exhibit the work of a band that is as recognisable for its unique visual imagery as for its music. Pink Floyd is an impressive and enduring British design story of creative success. The exhibition will locate them within the history of performance, design and musical production by presenting and complementing the material from Pink Floyd’s own archive with the V&A’s unrivalled collections in architecture, design, graphics and literature.”
Michael Cohl of Iconic Entertainment Studios said: “We are proud to have been chosen as the promoter of what will be an incredible exhibition at the V&A. I have always loved being involved with Pink Floyd and the work that goes into making a visual spectacular. This is the culmination of a long history together and I’m happy to work once again with one of the greatest bands of all time.”
The exhibition is curated by the V&A by a team led by Victoria Broackes alongside Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell of Hipgnosis, the Creative Director of Pink Floyd, and Paula Stainton. The curators have worked in close consultation with Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and the Estate of Richard Wright on the content of the exhibition, which is being designed by Stufish, the world leading entertainment architects and longtime stage designers for Pink Floyd.
The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains opens on 13 May 2017 for 20 weeks. Tickets are available now.https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/whatson/index/view/id/3555/event/Pink-Floyd--Their-Mortal-Remains/dt/2017-05-13/free/2
