Nick Cave: Soundsuit
Photo courtesy of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
UNITED STATES
SAN FRANCISCO • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • 28 March - 5 July 2009
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The largest scale presentation of work by Chicago-based artist and former Alvin Ailey dancer Nick Cave features forty of his "Soundsuits"— multi-layered mixed-media, wearable sculptures named for the sounds made when the sculptures are worn. As reminiscent of African and religious ceremonial costumes as they are of haute couture, Cave's work explores issues of ceremony, ritual, myth and identity through a layering of concepts, highly-skilled techniques and varied traditions, and using materials such as fabrics, beads, sequins, old bottle caps, rusted iron, sticks, twigs, leaves, and hair. Mad, humorous, elaborate, grotesque, glamorous and unexpected, the soundsuits are created from scavenged ordinary materials—detritus from both nature and culture—that Cave re-contextualizes into visionary works of art.
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