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Theaster Gates, Civil Futures [detail] at "Rendez-Vous", an exhibition at Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
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One stop along the way combining the wire sculpture of Calder's "Aztec Josephine Baker" with Katharina Fritsch's "Hahn/Cock", Yayoi Kusama unique perspective and Theaster Gates's slate roof for a little texture. With all the Calder exhibits to view this group of school kids preferred this one, they weren't the only ones!
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For me, part of Calder's allure is created from looking at and thinking about the lines in his art. OK, I admit it, I'm not all that far removed from the school children wrt this piece of work only I think about the lines as more of an abstraction and do love Calder's "Aztec Josephine Baker". To that end, I took the central part of Curious Admirers of Art any added a bit of wave and mixed it with some of Gates slate roof in blue and yellow. As art usually does, once I'm hooked I need to learn more, if you're interested in learning about Josephine Baker I've provided a link below:
Designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates.
Bronze bell – salvaged from St. Laurence, a Catholic Church that once stood in Chicago’s South Side.
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An interior photo from a 2nd visit to this years Theaster Gates / Adjaye Associates 'Black Chapel' Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park, London.
I warmed to it slightly this time around but I'd still say it's nowhere near the top of my list of these annual temporary structures.
Click here to see photos of previous years Serpentine Pavilions : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157645049374032
From the Serpentine Gallery website, "Designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, the Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel draws inspiration from many of the architectural typologies that ground the artist’s practice.
The structure, realised with the support of Adjaye Associates, references the bottle kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the beehive kilns of the Western United States, San Pietro and the Roman tempiettos, and traditional African structures, such as the Musgum mud huts of Cameroon, and the Kasubi Tombs of Kampala, Uganda. The Pavilion’s circularity and volume echo the sacred forms of Hungarian round churches and the ring shouts, voodoo circles and roda de capoeira witnessed in the sacred practices of the African diaspora.
Black Chapel is a site for contemplation and convening, set within the grounds of Serpentine in Kensington Gardens. The structure’s central oculus emanates a single source of light to create a sanctuary for reflection, refuge and conviviality. The project mirrors the artist’s ongoing engagement with ‘the vessel’ in his studio practice, and with space-making through his celebrated urban regeneration projects.
Drawn to the meditative environment of the Rothko Chapel – which holds fourteen paintings by American artist Mark Rothko in Houston, Texas – Gates has produced a series of new tar paintings titled Seven Songs for Black Chapel. Creating a space that reflects the artist’s hand and sensibilities, seven paintings hang from the interior. In these works, Gates honours his father’s craft as a roofer by using roofing strategies including torch down, a method which requires an open flame to heat material and affix it to a surface."
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Sanctum in the ruins of Temple Church in bristol, a European Green Capital event organised by Theaster Gates Situations.
En observant attentivement l’œuvre, vous découvrirez que Civil Futures est constitué de tuyaux d’incendie en tissu cousus ensemble. Avec le mot « civil », Theaster Gates fait référence au mouvement des droits civiques des années 1960 aux États-Unis. Les lances à incendie font également référence à des événements historiques spécifiques, où des manifestations pacifiques ont été dispersées, entraînant des blessures. Dans son œuvre, l’artiste tente de construire un pont entre l’art et la vie.
Civil Futures fait partie de l'exposition Listen to Your Eyes.
Upon closer inspection, you'll discover that Civil Futures is made of fabric fire hoses sewn together. With the word "civil," Theaster Gates refers to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s in the United States. The fire hoses also refer to specific historical events, where peaceful protests were dispersed, resulting in injuries. In his work, the artist attempts to build a bridge between art and life.
Civil Futures is part of the exhibition Listen to Your Eyes.
Interior of the Serpentine Pavilion 2022 designed by Theaster Gates (b.1973 Chicago USA). The 7 abstract expressionist "tar paintings" are also by the artist. By the Serpentine Gallery, City of Westminster, London.
Photo from a press preview of "Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces" at the New Museum (November 10, 2022–February 5, 2023)
Photo from a press preview of "Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces" at the New Museum (November 10, 2022–February 5, 2023)
2022 Serpentine Pavilion designed by Theaster Gates (b.1973 Chicago USA). Made of timber, clad with dark roofing membrane. By the Serpentine Gallery, City of Westminster, London.
Partie intitulée "Institut de la modernité et département du tourisme de l'île" de l'exposition Amalgam, en hommage à la communauté multiraciale de l'île de Malaga (Maine, USA) expulsée brutalement de son lieu de vie en 1912 par un gouverneur raciste
Cette installation rassemble des archives, objets et traces de l'histoire de l'île dans le but de la libérer de ses stigmates et de valoriser les amalgames au détriment d'une pureté fantasmée, à la base du racisme et de l'eugénisme.
Installation de l'artiste Theaster Gates, artiste américain né en 1973.
L'exposition évoque un épisode douloureux de l'histoire de l'État du Maine (USA) concernant l'île de Malaga. En 1912, le gouverneur de l'État du Maine a expulsé de leurs maisons, arbitrairement et sans contre-partie, les membres d'une communauté multiraciale d'environ 45 personnes, issue d'anciens esclaves et vivant très pauvrement sur l'île de Malaga. Son but était de développer le tourisme sur cette île.
Cette décision brutale, injuste et raciste, est restée ignorée de nombreuses années mais des descendants des personnes expulsées ont mis au jour cette histoire et obtenu des excuses des autorités. Un mémorial a été érigé en souvenir de cette communauté anéantie. Theaster Gates s'est intéressé à cet évènement qui est au centre de sa première expositon en France.
Site de l'exposition Amalgam au Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Theaster Gates (born 1973 Chicago) is an American Installation artist Social Practice artist. He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Gates’ work has been shown at major museums and galleries internationally and deals with issues of urban planning, religious space, and craft. He is committed to the revitalization of poor neighborhoods through combining urban planning and art practices.
Theaster Gates (b. 1973)
Red line with black soot and enthusiasm, 2013
Decommissioned fire hose and wood
59 x 92 x 4.5 in
149 x 233 x 11 cm
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7 Jul – 25 Sep 2016
“True Value” —the first exhibition by Theaster Gates (Chicago, 1973) in Milan— brings together a selection of existing works and new commissions in two different spaces at Fondazione Prada.
The Cisterna features works in which the artist explores habitual, everyday things, immersed in the most evocative Black aesthetics. Gates operates on the conviction that everyday objects convey a deep understanding, not only intrinsic to their material aspect, but reminiscent of the experiences in which they have been immersed. In that sense, discarded materials involving collective memories constitute the catalyst for a political and aesthetic reflection on cultural renewal and social activism. Fire hoses used against demonstrators during the US Civil Rights movements in the 1960s or gym floors from dozens high schools closed and fallen into oblivion, swept under an unbeatable neoliberal economic agenda, turned into artworks in which formalism is not just a mere visual factor. This transformative ethos, from which a symbolic universal value emanates, is key in Gates’s practice. These everyday objects, together with other items and elements referencing more ritualistic and spiritual experiences, shape the proposal offered to the public in the Cisterna.
On the first floor of the Podium, Gates hosts True Value (2016) —the installation after which the exhibition is named— which presents his rendition of an abandoned hardware store. True Value gathers materials, objects and tools removed from their original context and relocated in an art environment, deploying a framework to formulate a poetic and pragmatic space around objects of trade and human relationships those economic and labour exchanges create.
The exhibition is a further opportunity to explore certain nearby cultural and commercial entities, observing local stories, socio-political patterns, and economically and culturally under-explored communities in the hope of setting in motion a new cartography through which to visit and engage an overlooked Milan. Lastly, in a space in the likes of an artist’s studio or craftsman’s workshop, artworks created throughout the duration of the show will be on display.
The exhibition spaces will host a series of public meetings, titled “True Value in conversation”, by means of debates and readings. The first meeting will be held on the first floor of the Podium Thursday 7 July at 6 pm and will open with a gathering between Theaster Gates, Elvira Dyangani Ose and Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Notably known for exhibitions such as “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art” (2014) and the 1993 edition of the Whitney Biennial, Thelma Golden will join the artist and the curator of the show “True Value” to discuss art and its capacity to transform institutions, history re-writing and social practice. Admission is free. Complimentary tickets can be collected at the ticket desk from 5.30 pm.
Gates’s practice embraces a wide range of disciplines and a variety of artistic vocabularies – sculpture, painting, installation art, music and performance – as well as urban development and social practice. Starting on the South Side of Chicago, St Louis and Omaha where his first initiatives on art and social activism took place, Gates has subsequently advised individuals and organizations in other US cities (Detroit, Akron, and Gary, to name just a few) on how to conceive and carry out initiatives aiming to regenerate deprived urban areas by merging pragmatism and creativity, urban planning and “artistic gestures”. Internationally, Gates has also reflected on the capacity of art to renew traditions, upraise connectivity among communities or set up dialogues and exchange cultural heritage among cities through his projects, such as those in Istanbul, Bristol or Kassel. Some of his propositions have generated solid institutions, such as the Rebuild Foundation. Gates holds a chair at the Department of Visual Arts at Chicago University where he supervises the Arts and Public Life program.
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