The evening began with cocktails and speeches, first by the Montreal Jazz Fest’s Laurent Saulnier. The Montreal exhibition is presented and produced by Victor Shiffman & Workers of Art in partnership with Nick Cave Productions as a co-production with Le Festival International de Jazz de Montréal and Evenko. The exhibition was made possible with support from Gucci and The Beckett Foundation. It was curated and produced in collaboration with the Australian Music Vault and Nick Cave Productions. “ The exhibition was developed and designed by Christina Back of the Royal Danish Library and Janine Barrand of Arts Centre Melbourne. Created for The Black Diamond of The Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, and with Cave as a co-curator and co-designer, the exhibition is an unorthodox fusion of biography, autobiography and fiction, asking what shapes our lives and makes us who we are. With more than 300 objects collected or created by Nick Cave through six decades of his life. “ An unprecedented look into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. A tortured soul’s yearning for connection is gracefully weaved through sordid tales of murderers and misfits.Īccording to the press release the exhibit is : His lyrics resonate with dark poetic beauty. He then came of age during the punk rock era in a haze of amphetamines and heroin. The child was reared in Australia on a steady diet of murder ballads, John Milton, Baudelaire, Elvis and the Bible. If unfamiliar with his work, imagine if Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen had a baby. His most popular song Red Right Hand has been featured in many films and is the theme song for the TV series Peaky Blinders. In recent years he returned to his punk noise roots with the glorious shambolic chaos of Grinderman. In 1983 he formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and had chart success in the late 1990’s with his murderous duets with PJ Harvey and Kylie Minogue.

He rose to notoriety in the late 1970’s with the post-punk bands The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party. Nick Cave is a musician, novelist, award winning film score composer, screenwriter and Renaissance Man.

The exposition lasts until August 7 at the Galerie de la Maison du Festival in Montreal. Originally created in Copenhagen, this was the North American Premiere and only the second city where it has been presented. Thursday April 7th was the vernissage of Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition.

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