CELEBRATED ARTIST NICK CAVE TO BRING FIRST RETROSPECTIVE, FOROTHERMORE, TO MCA CHICAGO
MAY 14 – OCT. 2, 2022 AS PART OF CITYWIDE CELEBRATION
Artist Nick Cave – Photo Cred: Sandro Miller
Forothermore, the first career–spanning retrospective of internationally renowned, Chicago–based artist Nick Cave, will be on view at the MCA from May 14 to October 2, 2022.
The most comprehensive survey of Cave’s work to date, the exhibition is curated by Naomi Beckwith, former Manilow Senior Curator, MCA Chicago.
“I’m thrilled to be sharing my career’s work in my chosen hometown. I don’t take the gravity of this moment for granted,” said Cave. “From the MCA to the DuSable and beyond, this community and city–wide project is the realization of a dream that could only happen in Chicago — this way, with this brilliant team and throughout this great city.
Photo Cred: Nathan Keay
“The celebration continues with the ArtEdge: Celebrating Nick Cave gala on May 21 in the Roundhouse at the DuSable Museum of African American History, featuring a presentation of The Color Is, a performative fashion experience, featuring an 80–look production by Nick Cave and Jack Cave.
Produced by the MCA, The Color Is is an experience based on the concept of freedom from limits and described as a couture–created body of work that is an amalgamation of cultures, times and ideas, emancipating them from the limits of regular classifications.
Celebrating Nick Cave, there will be two public performances of The Color Is at the DuSable on Sunday, May 22 at 5:00 p.m. and Monday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m.Running concurrently with Forothermore, Cave will also debut a new video projection for Art on theMART, the world’s largest permanent digital art projection, as part of its Summer 2022 programming. The to–be–titled work, along with Cave’s Drive–By–Remix (2017), will be shown twice nightly on theMART’s facade from May 6 through September 7, 2022.Following its tenure at the MCA, a reimagined version of Forothermore will travel to the Guggenheim in New York City for an exhibition opening November 18, 2022, and is also curated by Naomi Beckwith, who currently serves as Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum.
“Nick Cave’s utopian vision and gift for magical material transformation is only matched by
his generosity as a mentor, educator and activist,” said Beckwith. “I am thrilled to see that the seeds that he planted in Chicago have flourished into a citywide celebration that not only honors his inspiring work but is a gift to his adopted hometown. Equally important is that audiences at the Guggenheim New York will also have the opportunity to experience a fulsome view of Nick’s artistic and life practice. Nick is an artist who allows all his audiences to celebrate, mourn, and learn with and from each other; a kind of social healing that is so necessary as the world contends with continued physical and political isolation.”
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