Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules
National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition design / Exhibition graphic design / Display case design / Production / Installation
The act of collecting throughout time has been driven by variety of desires, from fascination, to comprehension, to obsession: collecting for the sake of it. Andy Warhol spent years documenting and cataloguing his daily existence, his collections at once becoming art as well as archive. Around 120 Time Capsules were painstakingly inventoried by the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. More then 3,000 objects are contained within in the fifteen Time Capsules selected for this exhibition. Objects displayed included newspaper clippings and magazine ads, greeting cards, a pair of Clark Gable’s shoes, children’s books, record albums, original drawings, and finally photographs – hundreds of strips from photo booths of friends, celebrities and strangers (NGV). Touring exhibition from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh
The exhibition required over 30 large showcases to display the objects. Megan worked with Visy and NGV conservators to design cardboard and acrylic display cases that were assembled from flat pieces. The cases had to pass strict conservation and security standards to accommodate the loaned artworks, with testing and prototyping taking place. At the completion of the exhibition were disassembled and recycled and given to local galleries.
Completed as Exhibition Designer at the National Gallery of Victoria
Images: National Gallery of Victoria