{"id":31,"date":"2006-10-29T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/nick-cave-at-jack-shainman-gallery-chelsea\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T01:34:33","slug":"nick-cave-at-jack-shainman-gallery-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/nick-cave-at-jack-shainman-gallery-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Cave at Jack Shainman Gallery, Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/cave01.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/cave02.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/gueguense.jpg\" \/> While checking out galleries this past Friday, I was fortunate to walk along 20th Street and immediately be drawn into Jack Shainman Gallery by Nick Cave&#8217;s &#8220;Sourndsuits.&#8221;  Cave creates incredibly beautiful and detailed visual confections as costumes and wall pieces.  At first I was reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/jameswagner.com\/mt_archives\/004831.html\">Jim Drain&#8217;s incredible costumes,<\/a> but Cave&#8217;s work seems to draw more directly from ritualistic costumes of other cultures.  For example, a costume with a donkey head immediately reminded me &#8220;El Macho Raton&#8221; one of the characters from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoyita.com\/gueguense.htm\">El Gueguense, a Nicaraguan folkloric play,<\/a> pictured to the right.<\/p>\n<p>In the gallery presentation, Cave co-opts ethnographic displays of natural history museums.\u00c2\u00a0 He is at once playing the role of author and ethnographer.\u00c2\u00a0 As I walked out, my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxfatale.com\/\">Isabel<\/a> and I wondered if he was merely capitalizing upon the culture of others.\u00c2\u00a0 However, in investigating Nick Cave&#8217;s work, there seems to be a lot more to these costumes.\u00c2\u00a0 Cave designs them for performance, they are part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.wisc.edu\/artsinstitute\/air\/page.php?get=nick_cave.html\">an ongoing series that will come alive on stage.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/cave05.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/cave04.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/cave08.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/cave06.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/cave07.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/cave09.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/cave10.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While checking out galleries this past Friday, I was fortunate to walk along 20th Street and immediately be drawn into Jack Shainman Gallery by Nick Cave&#8217;s &#8220;Sourndsuits.&#8221; Cave creates incredibly beautiful and detailed visual confections as costumes and wall pieces. At first I was reminded of Jim Drain&#8217;s incredible costumes, but Cave&#8217;s work seems to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine_arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}