Nick Cave... or is it Nick Cave?

So I was originally going to comment on my love of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. That was the original post. On how the concert was amazing and even with his dirty child molester style mustache, I still thought he was hot. It's just something about that stage presence that makes you look past that sleazy look he is rocking lately. Kind of looking like Kevin Dillon from Entourage actually. Yes this post was going to be all about that....



It was going to be about how I had seen him before and that he amazes me everytime i see him. About how I love how his songs are so layered and brooding and the technical quality of the actual songs. Where they have so many layers and that they are just composed so amazingly well. How the musicians are such AMAZING musicians. Yeah this post was going to be all about how good the musicians are. How Warren Ellis uses his violin as a guitar to play the distorted sounds and his electric mandolin being used to not sound at all like a mandolin. I was going to write all about that....



But as I was looking up images for this post, trying to find actual photos of the show I went to, I came across an artist, named Nick Cave. Not the same Nick Cave mind you. This Nick Cave created these "Soundsuits". This is the gallery's blurb about the art:

Opening on October 13, 2006, Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Soundsuits, an exhibition of mixed-media, wearable sculptures by Chicago-based artist Nick Cave. Concurrently his work is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Mass Art, Boston, MA, the Salina Art Center, Kansas and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. He was recently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, IL (2006), as well as the group exhibition Freestyle Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2005). Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2007 include the Jacksonville Museum of art, FL, the Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, FL. Cave has received several prestigious awards including the Joyce Award (2006), Creative Capital Grants (2002, 2004 and 2005), and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2001). This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery. On view will be a selection of works titled Soundsuits, named for the sounds made when the sculptures are worn Constructed from found and recycled objects, thrift-store purchases, and hand-fabricated elements and comprised of materials such as vintage masks, beads, plastic flowers, cloth, and sticks that are intuitively combined to form complex and highly seductive visual surfaces. Reminiscent of African ceremonial costumes, yet similarly connected to haute couture, Cave’s Soundsuits are physical manifestations of his energy. He has said, ‘I believe that the familiar must move towards the fantastic. I want to evoke feelings that are unnamed, that aren’t realized except in dreams.’ Thus, through the acts of collecting and reconfiguring, Cave explores and reiterates cultural, ritualistic and ceremonial concepts. Concurrently, his focus on the connotations of materials as a way to construct narratives, coupled with the fact that the wearer is at times completely concealed, allows the work to transcend preconceived notions of class, race, and sexuality. Cave, who studied fiber arts at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

He now teaches at the school i graduated from. It's nice to come across something without expecting it... I instantly feel in love with these pieces and thought they needed to be shared. Enjoy the art and the Nick Cave videos....