Deinstallation of Pricked: Extreme Embroidery

May 8th, 2008 at 01:52pm Elayne Rush

Last week was the deinstallation of our final exhibition at our 53rd Street address. As with installations, the close of exhibitions requires much time spent organizing schedules, wrangling packing materials, talking with artists and lenders, scheduling shipments, and very careful art handling.

Josh will soon post a video clip that will show the deinstallation of one of the “Pricked” artworks, Annet Couwenberg’s Embroidery Penetrates. As you will see, the art handlers take great precaution in protecting this artwork during take down and movement.

The A level gallery with some deinstallation debris.

(More photos after the break)

Although this was our last exhibition at 40 West 53rd, it is quite an exciting time at MAD as we’re working fast and furious (without drifting) on our next exhibition which is set to open at 2 Columbus Circle in September 2008.

An empty B level. The dark area in the back was a large vitrine.

Apparently a very important 2×4.

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