Exhibition Designers Contemporary Art Exhibition

Our exhibition designers of contemporary art exhibitions partnered with Jim Condron, an internationally recognised contemporary artist who works and creates in Baltimore and Brooklyn, New York.

The “Collected Things” contemporary art exhibition is a collection of 26 modern sculptures made from commonplace items and ephemeral materials he had gathered from other artists, authors, and philosophers that formed the centrepiece of the exhibition.

These individual contributions have influenced and inspired other artists throughout their lifetimes, and their usage of abandoned artefacts gives their composition an intriguing and humorous whimsy.
The event was hosted at Artcake, in Brooklyn, New York, a creative hotspot that was formerly an industrial warehouse and still has distinctive architectural elements.

The decision was made to arrange the show into three galleries. The first of which would display a picture gallery of those who had contributed. The exhibition's centrepiece, "Collected Things," would be on show in the centre gallery, while a collection of the artist's earlier, more compact pieces would be housed in the smallest gallery. After walking the space and having a thorough discussion about the project, our contemporary art exhibition designers surprised Condron by revealing some of our many ideas. He said, "I love these ideas"! He was particularly fond of the lengthy T-shaped plinth that would be placed directly beneath the glass atrium.

The addition of this T-shaped plinth to the area gave the display structure and a natural visitor flow. It reduced this greatest area into a smaller setting, bringing the artwork into sharper relief.
Placing the plinth beneath the atrium had the added benefit of allowing the artwork to respond to the changing natural light throughout the day.
It was crucial to the success of the exhibition that the visitor recognise that there was something a little unique and unusual about this exhibition installation. From the instant you stepped foot inside the exhibition, we played with the unusual, from sneaky peeks through a cutout in the wall to the vertical titling of the exhibition.

The long, slender gallery was ideal for displaying photographs, and the cut-out window at the end provided a superb focal point by allowing visitors to see into the adjacent gallery for what is still to come. We used a scaled 3D model of the rooms to help position the artist's pieces, importing each one to scale and experimenting with several arrangements to find the best one. It was crucial to give each piece some breathing room while still connecting them to the stories where necessary.

By carefully choreographing the layout of the art galleries and focusing the lighting for the all-important finishing touch, a creative zone was created for all to enjoy.

Images courtesy of Tonya Morton

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