stranger than kindness the nick cave exhibition

It takes on a life of its own, revealing his often compulsive way of working, as well as his abiding interests and obsessions: desire, faith, sin, despair, redemption, grief, love, and the transformative thrust of language itself * * Observer * * Publisher: Canongate Books ISBN: 9781838852245 Number of pages: 276 Weight: 1675 g Dimensions: 285 x 215 x 30 mm Edition: Main MEDIA REVIEWSĪ scrapbook of rarely seen photos and sketches traces Nick Cave's transformation from Aussie teenager into an international artist. The images were selected from 'Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition', opening at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen in March 2020. The book has been developed and curated by Nick Cave in collaboration with Christina Back. Stranger Than Kindness asks what shapes our lives and makes us who we are, and celebrates the curiosity and power of the creative spirit. It features full colour reproductions of original artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs and collected personal artefacts along with commentary and meditations from Nick Cave, Janine Barrand and Darcey Steinke. This highly collectable book invites the reader into the innermost core of the creative process and paves the way for an entirely new and intimate meeting with the artist, presenting Cave's life, work and inspiration and exploring his many real and imagined universes. The exhibition reveals how Nick Cave’s life, music, archives and fictions continue to intertwine, inform and inspire each other.Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave.

Central is the ever-evolving collaboration in Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, from the band’s inception in Cave’s most obsessive period in Berlin, up to their latest release Ghosteen (2019), widely acknowledged as their best work ever. The chaotic years with his first bands, The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party, and his relocation to Berlin and then London.

It covers the journey from Cave’s childhood in 1960s Wangaratta, Australia, through

With more thanģ00 objects collected or created by Nick Cave through six decades of his creative and private life brought together in large-scale installations, the exhibition is an artwork in itself.Ĭreated for The Black Diamond of The Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, and withĬave as a co-curator and co-designer, the exhibition is an unorthodox fusion ofīiography, autobiography, and fiction, asking what shapes our lives and makes us The creative world of musician, storyteller, and cultural icon Nick Cave.

Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition is an unprecedented look into

Stranger than kindness the nick cave exhibition