The Nick Cave Collection for KnollTextiles
KnollTextiles introduces a collection of ten textiles created in collaboration with groundbreaking American artist and educator Nick Cave. Cave, born in 1959 in Missouri, works across both the visual and performing arts. By tapping various media—sculpture, installation, video, sound, and performance—Cave pulls disparate influences into a new kind of cohesion that seemingly molds the past and the present into the rhetorical question: And now? Throughout his practice, Cave has created spaces of memorial in which his audience confront the urgent issues of race, social justice, and identity politics in the United States. In his work, Cave reminds us, however, that along with despair, there remains the opportunity for hope and renewal. Perhaps best known for his Soundsuits, Cave creates dimension in textiles by layering, rearranging, and transforming everyday objects such as beads, doilies, sequins, and synthetic hair into material and sociopolitical representations. The heartbeat of all his work can be …
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