NICK CAVE

Everybody probably knows Nick Cave, the ingenious singer, but there is, in the art scene, another homonymous,  who may be not so well known, but  is as talented and nearly of the same age .

He’s an American artist of African origins, his deep roots reverberate through all his art, joyful, theatrical, tribal, dancing.

His works are actually extraordinary costumes related to ethnic and carnival masks, which sometimes recall complicated liturgical equipment, others fragments of a luxuriant nature, or even stacks of wood and stones.

The peculiarity of these beautiful and complex creations, that he calls “soundsuit”, is that they can actually be worn and are used for dancing.

Nick Cave is always associating his exhibitions with music and dancing choreographies, related to the propitiatory rituals of primitive cultures, or to the   redeeming ones of a certain folklore (even from our own- for example the mammutones in Sardinia).

This year for the first time in Italy, it twill be possible to admire his solo show in Verona, on until 10th of May in the Studio La Citta’ di Verona gallery.