Selected Works
Gagosian, Paris
February 12 – March 23, 2019
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Occupying two floors of the Paris gallery, the works on view highlight some of Gates’s artistic preoccupations in a panoramic sweep: the Civil Tapestries(2011–) made from lengths of used firehose; the cast wall works Bronze with Stripe and Bronze (Africa) (both 2016) and tar paintings Playground with High Horizon and Torchdown (both 2014), which relate to the working history of Gates’s own family; the ceramic vessels and figurines inspired by African artifacts and made by Gates in his Chicago kiln; and Neon (Mountain) (2016), from a series of neon sculptures based on W. E. B. DuBois’s modernist data visualizations on the state of Black life in the United States, exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris.
Selected Works
Installation view of Theaster Gates: Selected Works, Gagosian Paris, 2019. Photo: Zarko Vijatovic. Courtesy Gagosian.
Installation view of Theaster Gates: Selected Works, Gagosian Paris, 2019. Photo: Zarko Vijatovic. Courtesy Gagosian.
Installation view of Theaster Gates: Selected Works, Gagosian Paris, 2019. Photo: Zarko Vijatovic. Courtesy Gagosian.
Installation view of Theaster Gates: Selected Works, Gagosian Paris, 2019. Photo: Zarko Vijatovic. Courtesy Gagosian.
Installation view of Theaster Gates: Selected Works, Gagosian Paris, 2019. Photo: Zarko Vijatovic. Courtesy Gagosian.
Installation view of Theaster Gates: Selected Works, Gagosian Paris, 2019. Photo: Zarko Vijatovic. Courtesy Gagosian.
Installation view of Theaster Gates: Selected Works, Gagosian Paris, 2019. Photo: Zarko Vijatovic. Courtesy Gagosian.
Installation view of Theaster Gates: Selected Works, Gagosian Paris, 2019. Photo: Zarko Vijatovic. Courtesy Gagosian.