Hello,
I work at a museum that has a large ceramic wall mural on display in a gallery. It is currently installed with small slats of wood that rest in an indent of the back side of the tile. It's like a cleat but the tile is just resting on the wood slat, there is no interlocking mechanism going on. I inherited this hanging system and I'm amazed it has stayed up for as long as it has. I'm guessing because it is installed in a quieter gallery, and it's not as tempting to touch as our other work on view.
Our leadership would like to "permanently" relocate the work on a wall in a large mixed used space, used heavily by our events department. We had a painting installed on this wall and the events department were constantly asked by prospective guests to remove it, to which they were denied. However a few clients paid to have elaborate truss systems built in front of the wall to hide it with pipe and drape, constructed a foot away from the painting. We were finally able to have the painting relocated to avoid this from happening again.
Is there a safer, more secure way to install a ceramic wall mural onto a wall while having the option to remove it? If damage occurs or if my compromises with the events department are discarded again for the sake of an event sale, I would like an escape plan.
Wall mural in question:
» FAIRE FOYER: SARAH CROWNER IN DIALOGUE WITH ETEL ADNAN
Bass Museum of Art - Untitled
Thank you in advance!
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Courtney Linderman
Collections Manager
The Bass
Miami Beach
United States
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