Theaster Gates: Black Chapel
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Theaster Gates: Black Chapel
Theaster Gates: Black Chapel
Theaster Gates: Black Chapel
Theaster Gates: Black Chapel
Theaster Gates: Black Chapel
Theaster Gates: Black Chapel
Theaster Gates: Black Chapel
Theaster Gates: Black Chapel
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To celebrate Black Chapel, designed by Theaster Gates Serpentine has co-published a catalogue with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König. Richly illustrated and designed by New York-based designer Joseph Logan, this publication brings together exciting new writing from the fields of architecture, art and music to reflect on Gates’ Pavilion and his wider practice. It includes contributions by Jayden Ali, Jareh Das, Ryan Dohoney and Theaster Gates, Sir David Adjaye OM OBE and Hans Ulrich Obrist introduces the artist’s practice and traces the research, development and ideas behind the Pavilion.

The publication includes images of Black Chapel, the tar paintings and bell sculpture which were part of it, and visual documentation of live events that took place in the Pavilion over summer 2022. Performances ranged from experimental music to choral concerts, while workshops that centred the sacred offered space for reflection and convening.

Alongside photography of the artist’s past works and projects, the publication includes a collection of images compiled by Theaster Gates of places, buildings, objects and rituals which influenced the design of the Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel. Together, these images give insight into the design process and the artist’s practice.


Editors:

Chris Bayley

Natalia Grabowska

Yesomi Umolu

 

Authors:

Sir David Adjaye OM OBE

Jayden Ali

Jareh Das

Ryan Dohoney

Theaster Gates

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Christina Sharpe

 

Designer: Joseph Logan

 

Print: Verona Libri

 

Publisher: Serpentine and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln

 

Size: 20.3 x 26.7 cm 

 

Pages: 240

 

ISBN 978-1-908617-75-0

 

Retail price: £28

 

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Theaster Gates (b. 1973) creates works that engage with space theory, land development, sculpture and performance. Drawing on his interest and training in urban planning and preservation, the artist redeems spaces that have been left behind. His work contends with the notion of Black space as a formal exercise, one defined by collective desire, artistic agency and the tactics of a pragmatist.

In 2010, Gates created the Rebuild Foundation, a non-profit platform for art, cultural development and neighbourhood transformation that supports artists and strengthens communities through free arts programming and innovative cultural amenities on Chicago’s South Side.

Gates has exhibited and performed at The Victoria and Albert Museum (2021), London, UK; Whitechapel Gallery (2013 and 2021), London, UK; Tate Liverpool, UK (2020); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2020); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019); Palais de Tokyo Paris, France (2019); Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (2018); Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018); National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA (2017); Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (2016); Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2016); Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy (2013) and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany (2012).

Gates is the twelfth recipient of the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts (2021). In 2020, Gates received the Crystal Award for his leadership in creating sustainable communities. He was the winner of the Artes Mundi 6 Prize and a recipient of the Légion d’Honneur in 2017. He was awarded the Nasher Prize for Sculpture 2018, as well as the Urban Land Institute’s J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development. Gates is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and serves as the Senior Advisor for Cultural Innovation and Advisor to the Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy. Gates is currently included in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi from April 9 – September 11, 2022; and in STILL ALIVE, featured at Aichi Triennale, Tokoname, Japan from July 30 – October 10, 2022.

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