London’s Victoria and
Albert Museum has announced the first major international retrospective of Pink
Floyd, one of the world’s most pioneering and influential bands. To mark 50
years since the band released their first single Arnold Layne, and over 200 million
record sales later, 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 will
celebrate 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.
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 modern 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. Highlights will include spectacular set and construction
pieces from some of Pink Floyd’s most innovative and legendary album covers and
stage performances 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.
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.
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. Alongside creating extraordinary music, they have for over five
decades been pioneers in uniting sound and vision, from their earliest 1960s
performances with experimental light shows, through their spectacular stadium
rock shows, to their consistently iconic album covers. 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.
http://pinkfloydexhibition.com/
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