Theaster Gates’ New Museum exhibition meditates on mourning, materials and community

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Theaster Gates; Museum; Young Lords and Their Traces

Description

Theaster Gates talks about his first US museum show, ‘Young Lords and Their Traces’ at The New Museum, a moving homage to the creative forces who came before

Most artists would consider their first museum survey on home turf as an opportunity to celebrate personal successes. But for Theaster Gates, the Chicago-based artist, urbanist, musician and cultural icon it is also a chance to pay homage to the radical thinkers and creative forces who came before.  

Gates’ first American museum exhibition, ‘Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces’, opens 11 November 2022 at the New Museum in New York. In developing the show, he first drew from his native Chicago. Thinking about the local 1960s political group, Young Lords, and then about his personal cultural deities – such as bell hooks, Okwui Enwezor, Virgil Abloh, Sam Gilliam and Theaster Gates Sr, all of whom have passed – the exhibition is what Gates describes as ‘a personal pantheon’ and ‘a kind of memorial for different individuals who had an impact on my life and culture’.

Creator

BY PEI-RU KEH

Source

https://www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibitions-shows/theaster-gates-new-museum-exhibition

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wallpaper.com

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