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By: Isabel Dunstan
Date: 7th Nov 07
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Exertion will pay off
What:
Nick Cave - the exhibition
Where:
George Adams Gallery, the Arts Centre. Adjacent to St Kilda Rd entrance
When:
Open from Nov 10
How much:
Free
From country kid to author and subject of an exhibition, screenwriter and musician in between. We're getting sweaty palms just thinking about him. Nick Cave is an icon and since he's donated his "boxes of shit" tothe George Adams gallery at the Arts Centre he's probably okay with this.
When he submitted his first and only novel, And The Ass Saw an Angel the publishers received a hellish pile of notes, some hand scrawled and some typed on his Olivetti typewriter. This anecdote pretty much sums up the exhibition. Slapdash notes, the typewriter, photographs and collected ephemera will expose the dark horse who is Cave.
After a novel, DVDs, films, albums, poetry, spoken word recordings, countless interviews, awards (which he didn't accept) and a recent a live performance with Grinderman (was anyone else taken aback by their uncanny resemblance to the cast of Fiddler on the Roof?) we agree that the next best Cave portal to open is an exhibition of his stuff.
As long as it doesn't shackle his muse to that bloody cart of severed heads and glittering prizes.