Event Listing - Museums
Sat Mar 28 - Sun Jul 5

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth


Tel. 415.978.2787
Website
$3 - $7
Tickets
Box Office: 415.978.2787

Location
Date and Time
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
cross street: 3rd St.
district: SoMa

Sat Mar 28 (Tues, Weds, Fri, Sat, Sun: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Thurs: 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm; FREE First Tuesday)
Sun Mar 29 (Tues, Weds, Fri, Sat, Sun: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Thurs: 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm; FREE First Tuesday)
Tue Mar 31 (Tues, Weds, Fri, Sat, Sun: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Thurs: 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm; FREE First Tuesday)
Wed Apr 1 (Tues, Weds, Fri, Sat, Sun: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Thurs: 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm; FREE First Tuesday)
Thu Apr 2 (Tues, Weds, Fri, Sat, Sun: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Thurs: 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm; FREE First Tuesday)

Description
YBCA presents the largest scale presentation of work by Chicago-based artist and former Alvin Ailey dancer, Nick Cave, featuring fifty of his “soundsuits”—multi-layered mixed-media, wearable sculptures named for the sounds made when the sculptures are worn. As reminiscent of African and religious ceremonial costumes as they are of haute couture, Cave’s work explores issues of ceremony, ritual, myth and identity. He does this through a layering of concepts, highly-skilled techniques and varied traditions, using materials such as fabrics, beads, sequins, old bottle caps, rusted iron, sticks, twigs, leaves and hair. Mad, humorous, elaborate, grotesque, glamorous and unexpected, the soundsuits are created from scavenged ordinary materials—detritus from both nature and culture—that Cave re-contextualizes into visionary masterpieces.