![]() Cave teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, NY.Ī collection of high-resolution images is available here: bit.ly/1NSg8vH. the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach the Museum of Modern Art, New York the Birmingham Museum of Art the de Young Museum, San Francisco the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston the Orlando Museum of Art the Smithsonian Institution and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Cave has received several awards, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, Artadia Award, the Joyce Award, Creative Capital grants, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Public collections include the Brooklyn Museum Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville the Detroit Institute of Arts the High Museum, Atlanta the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. NY, a large-scale performance in Grand Central Terminal organized by Creative Time.Solo exhibitions include: the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Nick Cave: Sojourn, Denver Art Museum Nick Cave: The World is My Skin, Trapholt Museum, Denmark Freeport 006: Nick Cave, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Fantastic 2012, Lille 3000, Le Tripostal, Lille, France and HEARD This is Nick Cave from the inside out, on a grand theatrical scale.īorn in Missouri in 1959, Nick Cave studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, and trained with the renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Conceived as a one-year concatenation of performances, community events, and art, Until incorporates special appearances by internationally known dancers, singer-songwriters, pop artists, poets, and composers, together with panel discussions, community forums, and other forms of creative public debate and engagement. And as such, the space will be used throughout the run of the 10-month exhibition as an event-driven area. “I view this work as a theater set, or an elaborate community forum, as much as a work of sculpture,” notes Cave. Cave believes in humanity, celebrating possibility while also creating a forum for critical discussion.Ĭave has come to see himself as a messenger, endeavoring to coalesce communities, discuss important issues, and ultimately heal through art. The aim of this is pointed, questioning us to spark discussion about important issues in a space that is at once dazzling, provocative, and - ultimately -overwhelmingly optimistic. ![]() This is an active space where alluring kinetics and a sumptuous materiality give way to stark images of guns, bullets, and targets, positioning us all as culpable, vulnerable, and potentially under attack. Until begins with a dense sculptural field of metallic lawn ornaments leading to a crystal cloud topped by a private garden populated with birds, flowers, and black-face lawn jockeys, finally coming to rest before a cliff wall constructed of millions of plastic pony beads. For Cave’s MASS MoCA installation, Until - a double play on the phrase “innocent until proven guilty” or in this case “guilty until proven innocent” - Cave addresses issues of gun violence, gun control policy, race relations, and gender politics in America today. Just as the violence around the Rodney King beating was the impetus to Cave’s early work, the death of men such as Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown drive his new imagery. Often seen as celebrations of movement and material, the first Soundsuit, made out of twigs, was a direct response to the Rodney King beating, a visual image about social justice that was both brutal and empowering. Instead, Cave uses MASS MoCA’s signature football field-sized space to create his largest installation to date, made up of thousands of found objects and millions of beads, which will make viewers feel as if they have entered a rich sensory tapestry, like stepping directly inside the belly of one of his iconic Soundsuits. The artist known for his wearable sculptures called Soundsuits turns expectations inside out at MASS MoCA in a massive immersive installation opening Octonot a single Soundsuit will be found in this exhibition. NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS - If you think you know Nick Cave, think again. 413.664.4481 Nick Cave: Until Largest-Ever Museum Exhibition Signals Next Phase of Artist’s Career
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