I am not nostalgic by nature and I had no time for a trip down Memory Lane. When the Royal Danish Library contacted me with the idea of a “Nick Cave Exhibition” I was reluctant to get involved. It reveals how Nick Cave’s life, music, archives, and fictions continue to intertwine, inform and inspire each other. Behind each work is an equally fascinating artistic process not originally intended for public view the exhibition opens up the innermost parts of Cave’s creative universe and offers a story of its own. The exhibition invites visitors to follow Cave’s development as an artist – and to gain insight into the overarching themes of his work, his working methods and the many sources of inspiration underpinning it all. Nick Cave’s body of work encompasses a wide range of media and modes of expression, with narrative forms at the heart. Created for The Black Diamond of The Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, and with Cave as a co-curator and co-designer, the exhibition is an unorthodox fusion of biography, autobiography, and fiction, asking what shapes our lives and makes us who we are. ‘Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition’ is an unprecedented look into the creative world of musician, storyteller, and cultural icon Nick Cave. With more than 300 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. Gucci sponsors a special exhibition in celebration of the life and work of Nick Cave.
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