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Nick Cave

Nick Cave is a sculptor and performance artist whose interdisciplinary work addresses race, gender, sexuality, and the body. The central sheet of this monumental triptych depicts the cellular structure of a mycobacterium, a pathogen life-threatening to those with failing immune systems caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The two outer panels feature men’s long-sleeve dress shirts, which Cave found and arranged to create collagraph plates. The empty shirts are haunting reminders of human bodies lost to HIV/AIDS.
Artist
Nick Cave
(American, b. 1959)
Title
Virus
Date
2000
Medium
Collograph and color photolithograph
Dimensions
47 1/2 x 35 3/4 in. each image
Credit
Eugenie Mayer Bolz Endowment Fund purchase
Accession No.
2021.32.1a-c
Classification
Prints
Geography
United States

Related

2021, sold by Island Press (Saint Louis, MO) to the Chazen Museum of Art

  • Chazen Museum of Art. Pressing Innovation: Printing Fine Art in the Upper Midwest, Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2022. p. 24, cat. no. 34

  • Pressing Innovation: Printing Fine Art in the Upper Midwest: Chazen Museum of Art, 2/14/2022–3/15/2022

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