Visiting Masterpieces:
Pairing Picasso
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016
Photos courtesy of MFA, Boston
I designed this exhibition in collaboration with curator Katie Hanson and graphic designer Nick Pioggia.
The concept of this exhibition was to pair four major works by Picasso, loaned from the Foundation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland to the MFA, with works of similar subject matter from the MFA's own collection. The show presented an opportunity to examine Picasso's prolific nature and method of exploring the same forms in multiple ways and at various stages in his career.
To support this concept, I introduced five freestanding walls that wrapped around and projected from—but never touched—the gallery’s perimeter. Each wall framed a single pairing. The location, shape, and positioning of the walls complemented the shape shifting nature of Picasso’s explorations, and performed the function of setting apart each pairing as an individual study. The labels were positioned off to the side to encourage uninterrupted visual comparison between the works.