The Black Image Corporation - Theaster Gates
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 evocat...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Milano
Fondazione Prada
2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | Quaderno Fondazione Prada
#21 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. Exhibition: Observatorium, Milan, Italy (20.09.2018-14.01.2019) |
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| Beschreibung: | In Box Published to document the exhibition project "The Black Image Corporation", Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milano, 20.09.2018-14.01.2019. A project by Theaster Gates Box contains 183 cards with 366 numbered photos by Moneta Sleet (1926-1996) and Isaac Sutton (1923-1995) and 36 vellums (=Pergament), all made available by the Johnson Archive. The vellums are associated to the related photographs here printed on cards by the same numerical code |
| Beschreibung: | 28 Seiten, 366 Seiten Bildtafeln, 36 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln |
| ISBN: | 9788887029734 978-88-87029-73-4 8887029733 88-87029-73-3 |