# @carnegiemuseumofart on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3hwRjlppJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/75819719-carnegiemuseumofart-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-06-25T18:10:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Carnegie Museum of Art (@carnegiemuseumofart) — https://gondola.cc/carnegiemuseumofart

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We're wrapping up our #TBT with an installation work from the 2008 #CarnegieInternational!
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“I’ve been involved with the International since 1988, and Thomas Hirschhorn’s Cavemanman was one of the most complex installations I can remember. It arrived in two 40-foot sea freight containers, and we were dumbfounded to see the contents: piles of wooden pallets and used cardboard, garbage bags full of cardboard, bins of foil-covered mannequins, and boxes of books. There were also posters, videos, and fluorescent light fixtures. So many soda cans were needed to scatter in the cave that staff were asked to contribute to the supply. I always marked the Diet Coke cans I brought to work with my initials, so it was fun to run across a can marked “etb” in the installation. .
“After weeks of building an elaborate wooden framework, a crew began assembling the inner walls from all that cardboard. The cave was so large that it filled one gallery and then spilled over into our storage gallery. We had to build a ‘secret’ doorway that allowed us into storage but only by walking through the entire cave. The door stayed closed and was quite camouflaged, so you had to remember where it was. I always tried to make sure no one was looking when I snuck through but definitely surprised a few visitors coming back into the cave!”—Elizabeth Tufts-Brown, Associate Registrar
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[Image description] An installation artwork made of cardboard taking the shape of a cave with posters hung on the interior ceiling
Thomas Hirshhorn, Cavemanman, 1988, Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art

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