The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains
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The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, the critically acclaimed major retrospective of Pink Floyd, opened this week-end in Dortmund, Germany’s inaugural exhibition.
Following its highly-successful debut at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum last year, which saw over 400,000 people attend, and the prestigious Macro in Rome, the Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains now opens this Saturday 15 September at Dortmunder U.
The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, is a collaboration between the members of Pink Floyd and curator, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell. Developed closely with Nick Mason (Exhibition Consultant for Pink Floyd) the exhibition features over 300 previously unseen artefacts collected over the band’s eclectic history. It is an audio-visual journey through 50 years of one of the world’s most iconic rock groups, and a rare andexclusive glimpse into the world of Pink Floyd.
The exhibition’s phenomenally successful run at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum was described by national British newspapers as “stunning” and “a real feast for the senses”, and was one of the most successful exhibitions to ever take place at the London museum. The Exhibition’s run at Dortmunder U continues to celebrate Pink Floyd’s first appearances in Dortmund in 1977 on their In The Flesh (Animals)Tour. They returned to Dortmund in 1981 in Westfalenhallen with The Wall live, 8 nights of the total 31 shows worldwide, the only European performances outside of London.
The exhibition celebrates Pink Floyd’s place in history as the world’s cultural landscape changed from the 1960s. The band occupied a distinctive experimental space and were the foremost exponents of a psychedelic movement that changed the understanding of music forever, becoming one of the most important groups in contemporary music.
Pink Floyd have produced some of the most iconic imagery in popular culture: from cows, The Dark Side of the Moon prism, pigs flying over Battersea Power Station, and Marching Hammers to giant inflatable teachers; their vision brought to life by creative individuals such as modern surrealist and long-time collaborator, the late Storm Thorgerson, satirical illustrator Gerald Scarfe and psychedelic lighting pioneer Peter Wynne Wilson.
The flow of the exhibition, in chronological order, is enhanced throughout by music and the voices of past and present members of Pink Floyd, including Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason and David Gilmour, talking about their musical experiences through their experiences and musicalexperimentation via sound specialist Sennheiser’s intuitive GuidePORT system. This culminates in the Performance Zone, where visitors enter an immersive audio-visual space, which includes the recreation of the very last performance of all four members of the band at Live 8 in 2005 with Comfortably Numb,specially mixed using Sennheiser’s ground-breaking AMBEO 3D audio technology.
The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains is presented by Michael Cohl of Concert Productions International B.V. The exhibition was originally created for London’s V&A, led by Pink Floyd’s creative director Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell (of the design partnership Hipgnosis) and Paula Webb Stainton, who workedclosely with the Pink Floyd members including Nick Mason (Exhibition Consultant For Pink Floyd), withadditional curation provided by the V&A’s Victoria Broackes.
The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains at Dortmunder U in Dortmund opens Saturday 15 September 2018 until 10 February 2019.
Music On Walls gathered a playlist of Pink Floyd Anthology : 1967 - 2014
Music On Walls had the chance to attend the concert of Pink Floyd’s drummer and musician Nick Mason as he performed live on stage with his band at the Tempodrom on September 16, 2018 in Berlin, Germany.
Named Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, after Pink Floyd’s second album, the lineup includes Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, Lee Harris of the Blockheads, bassist Guy Pratt, who took over from Roger Waters in Floyd, and composer Dom Beken, a collaborator with late Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright. Pratt and Beken worked together in the electronic band Transit Kings.
This was a unique opportunity to experience Pink Floyd’s celebrated and significant early body of work played live including songs from albums The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets.
Listen to the songs played during the concert here :
