The exhibition experience reveals how Nick Cave’s life, music, archive and fictions continue to intertwine, inform and inspire each other
Perhaps Nick Cave is No. 3 behind Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen in the ranking of the greatest singer/songwriters of the 20th/21st century. In any case, his work is worth honoring with the same respect and now also being shown in Montreal, Leonard Cohen’s hometown, as part of a gallery exhibition after Copenhagen.
The exhibition presents more than 50 years of Cave’s life, work, and creative output presented through a spatialized lens — a multi-sensory exploration of his many real and imagined universes.
Included, „Avalanche“, the song by Leonard Cohen that has influenced Nick Cave the most since the beginning of his musical ambitions in his youth. The exhibition features an interpretation of Cohen from Tony Palmer’s film „Bird On A Wire“. Leonard Cohen’s influence on Nick Cave’s oeuvre is great and has been quoted many times. It is the Leonard Cohen song „Avalanche“ that Cave describes as his musical finder.
Until 2020, Nick Cave interpreted „Avalanche“ in his concerts from time to time. The exhibition in Montreal, which was previously shown in Copenhagen, will take place at the Galerie de la Maison du Festival, 305 Sainte-Catherine West, Montreal QC H2X 2A3 until 25 September 2022.
gibt es: Eight impressive installations with more than 300 objects create a journey into the creative and complex world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave.
