8/16/2023 0 Comments Nick cave artist mass moca![]() ![]() In the moments after American artist Nick Cave presented the final performance of his spectacular equine flash mob HEARD Cave lives and works in Chicago.An installation view of Nick Cave’s Until exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary ArtĬredit: Courtesy of the artist and MASS MoCA Photo by James Prinz Cave has had major exhibitions at MASS MoCA (2016), Cranbrook Art Museum (2015), Saint Louis Art Museum (2014–15), ICA Boston (2014), Denver Art Museum (2013), Seattle Art Museum (2011) and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2009), among others. Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, initially created in direct response to the police beating of Rodney King in 1991. Nick Cave (born 1959) is an artist and educator working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. Interviews by Naomi Beckwith, Nick Cave, Nona Hendryx, Linda Johnson Rice, Damita Jo Freeman. Text by Romi Crawford, Antwaun Sargent, Malik Gaines, Krista Thompson, Meida Teresa McNeal. ![]() Published by DelMonico Books/Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. PUBLISHER: DelMonico Books/Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago NICK CAVE: FOROTHERMORE DELMONICO BOOKS/MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO ISBN: 9781942884965įORMAT: Hbk, 9 x 11 in. Cave’s is a language that is built on the past, operates from the present, but thrusts the imagination far into the future.” continue to blog It is a constructed space where the Black body can transcend the violence prescribed to Black identity with glamour, authority and noise. ![]() It’s a re-stylization of the conditions of the present into an aesthetic politic that provides a space of hope for the Black body. “His reconstitution of found materials that are often uncommon in contemporary fashion design-but which are found in histories of costume and craft-is an experiment in exceeding traditions as a way of extending the possibilities of identity. “In Cave’s art, material realities simultaneously encompass journeys of Black oppression and excellence,” Antwaun Sargent writes. PRAISE AND REVIEWSįROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE Antwaun Sargent on Nick Cave in 'Forothermore’ Featured spreads are from Nick Cave: Forothermore, the superb catalog to the critically-acclaimed mid-career survey on view now through October 2, 2022, at the MCA Chicago. Featured image is reproduced from 'Nick Cave: Forothermore'. ![]() Nick Cave: Forothermore reveals the way art, music, fashion and performance can help us envision a more just future. Punctuating these contributions are interviews with the artist exploring his life, work and teaching practice, as well as a roundtable discussion between Cave and dancer Damita Jo Freeman, musician Nona Hendryx and publisher Linda Johnson Rice on Cave's art and influences, as well as pivotal cultural phenomena from Soul Train to Ebony magazine. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power.Īddressing topics ranging from art history to social justice, Nick Cave: Forothermore includes essays from Naomi Beckwith, Romi Crawford, Antwaun Sargent, Malik Gaines, Krista Thompson and Meida Teresa McNeal. The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, Nick Cave: Forothermore highlights the way Cave’s practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. With a wealth of images and commentary, this is the essential career survey of Cave's socially responsive art ![]()
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