Nick Cave was born in Missouri on February 4, 1959, but he now lives and works in Chicago. His mother raised him and his seven brothers, which is how he got started in fashion because he would get his brothers hammy downs and he would alter them so that they would be his own. He had an artistic and creative ability from a young age and he showed it .
His creations area mixer of Alexander McQueen and Andy Warhol. Most of his suits that you can buy start at $350 some start at $240. The mediums he uses is wide, ranging from video, sculpture, installation, and performance.
He has won many awards which are 1987 Ford Foundation Scholarship which he also won in 1998 and 1999. 1993 Arts Midwest Grant ,Illinois Arts Council State Grant,1997 Illinois Arts Council State Grant ,2000 “Faces in the Field” ,The Field Museum of Natural History Award, 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, 2002 Creative Capital Grant, 2004
Creative Capital Grant, 2006 Artadia Award, Joyce Foundation Joyce Award, and in 2008
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.
He has many performances around the Country include Denver Art Museum and Trapholt Museum of Modern Art. Some of the exhibits are Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, Triple-Ripple, and FANTASTIC Lille3000 with a few others.
His suits are used as sculptures and as performance costumes and they all create some kind of sound. Some are made out of buttons, beads, and bright synthetic fur, most of the costumes are made up of varies things. He finds all of his materials from flea markets, thrift stores, and antique stores. The costumes that are beautiful and fun to look at. He wants you to wonder what you are encountering, what is it ?
The Sound Suits came about from him waking through the park gathering sticks and when he made the costume and put it on he realized that when he moved around that the suit made sound and that is what started it.
i personally love to look at all the different suits and creations that Nick Cave create. I find them so interesting to look at and i enjoy watching all the videos on him !
He does have assistants that help but he does most of the work himself.
“I’ve had to come to the realization that what I do creatively no one else does,” he said. “I had to accept that as my life. And that’s a hard thing, the pressure of that.”(Theatlantic)
The people that wear the outfits are either dancers or people that understand the body movement as Nick Cave says. They are all different dancers some are hip pop some are ballerinas.
Nick Cave does not just create the sounds suits but he also performs in them too and does videos in them as well with the other dancers.
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http://www.artspace.com/nick_cave
http://creativetime.org/projects/heard-ny/about-the-artist/
http://video.pbs.org/video/2226846036/
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/nick-cave-38
http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/nick-cave/
http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_23406277/nick-caves-fabulous-resurrectionsat-denver-art-museum
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/07/nick-caves-art-about-everything-now-seems-like-its-everywhere/277663/
I’m studying the Bellagio “Soundsuit” in Las Vegas, NV. I’m having trouble finding dimensions for this work of art. Do you have any suggestions?