![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Those early creative years were a great grabbing up of ideas – all the amazing people, the drugs, the art, all the beautiful chaos.” There are framed photos of his family, Cave as a boy and teenager, a letter sent to his family while he was a boarder at Caulfield Grammar School, and a copy of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The first room features Cave’s childhood in Wangaratta and time at boarding school in Melbourne, Australia. There are 8 thematic rooms highlighting a particular point in Cave’s life: But after going through Stranger Than Kindness, I’m even more intrigued about him as a person and as an artist. Although I like a number of his songs, I wasn’t a hardcore fan. If you didn’t already know singer, songwriter, novelist, composer, screenwriter, actor and overall Renaissance Man, Nick Cave, after a visit to the exhibition, you will get a good sense of who this man is. It invites visitors to follow Cave’s evolution and journey as an artist over the span of 50 years: his influences and inspirations, love and loss and how it all became overarching themes in his work. Stranger Than Kindness explores the intersection between Cave’s inner and outer worlds. And it made its North American debut in Montreal this past April. The exhibit was originally created for The Black Diamond of The Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, with Cave himself the co-curator and co-designer. In another case of fortuitous timing, my trip coincided with the Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition being presented at Galerie de la Maison du Festival. ![]()
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