Nick Cave: Power & Cycles | 05.10 - 20.12.2023
Holtermann Fine Art is delighted to present Nick Cave: Power & Cycles, the artist’s first gallery exhibition in London. Born 1959 in Fulton, Missouri, the artist’s illustrious career includes his recent survey show Forothermore at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York.
The politics of the human body lies at the beating heart of Cave’s sculptural imagination and the sculptures in Nick Cave: Power & Cycles offer a compelling insight into the artist’s present work.
At the centre of the display hangs a striking new work called Chain Reaction. This 4-meter-tall multipartite sculpture comprises 15 suspended chains – resin casts of interlocking arms and wrists, taken from the artist’s own body, hung in concentric circles in the gallery.
Also on view will be a new Tondo – a large wall-hanging sculpture made with brightly coloured wire, bugle beads and sequins. The work is a powerful metaphor for present-day environmental and social crises while Arm Peace, a work with tole flowers offers a gesture of defiance, remembrance, and love.
Detail from Nick Cave, Arm Peace, 2023. Photo Ollie Hammick
