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“You were born and built piece by piece,” Australian musician Nick Cave’s teaser says of his lacheck exhibition. “Get through everything you love.”
Cave recently opened an exhibition of autobiographical art, Stranger Than Kindness, at the Black Diamond, a component of the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. And my boy, what a retrospective it is.
Co-presented through Gucci and the Beckett-Fonden Foundation, this is a window into Cave’s art world, with more than three hundred products in his six-decade career; from live concert shots to sheet music, handwritten letters, ancient diaries, period photographs, notes and a recurring theme of angel motifs.
There can also be an old piano, recording albums and a lot of books, allowing us to see what has animated the musician over the years.
It’s an immersive exposure
Cave said in a statement: “When the Royal Danish Library contacted me with the assumption of a ‘Nick Cave exhibition’, I resisted getting involved. I don’t have any nostalgia for nature and didn’t have time to take a walk. Memory Lane, ” he said. “But the library team saw other very serious humans with outstanding contagious force and attracted me!”
He his life, from his early years, through the fame of rock and to this day, with an emphasis on storytelling, storytelling and providing a look at his artistic process.
“We’ve created an exhibition that feels unprecedented in its ambitious reach, its feet long since stretching into an unbound future,” Cave adds. “In the end, we were able to install a mix of an exhibition of additional important things that commented on the delicate and vulnerable nature of identity.”
“I’m very proud to be this exclusive, unorthodox exhibition, a dazzling story we call Stranger Than Kindness.”
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Nadja Sayej is a New York art and culture journalist. Originally a friend from Toronto, she has lived in Paris and Berlin, writing for The Guardian, The Economist.
Nadja Sayej is an art and culture journalist founded in New York. Originally a friend from Toronto, she has lived in Paris and Berlin, writing for The Guardian, The Economist and The New York Times. He has probably interviewed more than two hundred celebrities, from David Lynch to Salma Hayek, Susan Sarandon and Patton Oswalt. Known for spraying both tales with a sense of humor, she is the protagonist of five boks that add The Celebrity Interview Bok, released in 2017, and Biennale Bitch, a fun bok about the art world, released in 2018. Nadja can also be a celebrity photography photographer for V Magazine and Interview Magazine Germany, among others. Visit their website on nadjasayej.com.