The Rolling Stones spent the last three years designing an unprecedented interactive exhibit: Exhibitionism takes up nine rooms on two floors of the Saatchi Gallery in London and is made up of over 500 artifacts from band members’ personal archives. Opening in April 2016, the show features numerous immersive installations, including a recreation of the Stones’ dressing room, alongside rare audio tracks, unseen video footage, and much more.
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This is the first exhibit of its kind wherein the musicians’ perspectives define their canon through a carefully curated selection of their own possessions. Of Exhibitionism, Keith Richards says, “While this is about the Rolling Stones, it’s not necessarily only just about the members of the band. It’s also about all the paraphernalia and technology associated with a group like us, and it’s this, as well as the instruments that passed through our hands over the years, that should make the exhibition really interesting.”
Exhibitionism spans all five decades of the band’s history, featuring content such as personal diaries, correspondences, backstage paraphernalia, and rare guitars and other instruments. Aside from their own personal archive, the exhibit offers a reflection of their music’s influence on popular culture through a cross-genre exploration that includes fashion, performance, art, and design. The culminating exhibit serves as commentary on the innovations-—musically and beyond—that the band has forged through the last half century.
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