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The ‘other’ Nick Cave…

Αναρτήθηκε από τον/την Nineta Kle στις

New York City first days of the new year.  Out of the window the day is moody, grey and wet. Contrary to my stay- at- home nature I’m determined to visit the Guggenheim museum. After all I’ve already bought the ticket, actually in an attempt to avoid cancel my visit…So, here I am three years after walking on 5th avenue just me and few other pedestrians in their usual city rush. As I get closer to the museum it gets buzzing

The night before i did browse at the Gugghenheim website. Nick Cave exhibits ?? The celebrated Australian singer, author, composer etc etc ?  More information given through an audio reveals another Nick Cave less Anglo Saxon, less macho more coloured.

Inside the museum I quickly cote the impressionism room –apologising guiltily to my beloved expressionist for the adultery but the new cannot wait.  Voila I enter the first room of ‘Forothermore”…and here I am an Alice in wonderland ! But this time the story is somehow reversed. Alice, an adult coming from a prejudiced full of rules and social etiquette world, finds herself in a magically colourful world of inclusion and forgiveness, a party of coexistence a tribute to a collectively life.

What «forothermore» is about ? «This show illustrates what I’ve been doing with my life, and what I’ve been doing is really using art as this vehicle to heal, to forgive, and to work through the daily trauma of the abuse, the assault on Black bodies.‘

Sea Sick, there is this ceramic bust that sits on top of this sort of shelf. You know, it’s a container with a lid, features of a Black man, and as I read the description, it says “spittoon.” I was just sort of livid for the fact that this is what you did to this object. Then I just started to think about how racism transferred over into consumerism and product…as I start to look at the work, I start to think about the community outreach, that, you know, I’m only a vessel at the end of the day. .. I feel I have been the one chosen to deliver these deeds. I have a job to do. I am the voice for many people. And it’s really being able to sort of celebrate our differences, and honoring that in this sort of celebratory way. NC
when I think about Arm Peace it’s rally about that. How do we stand one to one in a peace offering sorts? What do I bring to offer that? What is that gesture that is given that is to be received ? the fact that I can stand here, you can stand here and we can sort of be in this moment collectively is – that moment, that is that I’m wanting to talk about. NC

Though his work speaks to violence, to injustice, to drama that many people has faced, he struggles offering in return a vibrant and dazzling world.

Beauty, adornment, embellishment has always been my pushback. I have always used it as a way to resist. It brings the power to the dark side of the work. It shrines. But it stands with hope and optimism. It’s that all that we have? That’s the one thing that can never be taken away from any of us, is this idea of dreaming, and thinking of the fantastic. NC

With this idea of dreaming and thinking of the fantastic I step out of the museum. The weather looked brighter, my soul felt warmer, my thoughts promising. Alice had peeped into the world of the missing heaven where there is not only room for everyone  but differences are celebrated and honoured…

For me, when I think about Forothermore, it’s so much grander, it’s so much bigger than myself. It’s a way in for all of us to collectively come together in a shared experience. It’s therapy. NC


https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/nick-cave-forothermore

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