Theaster Gates talks to the White Cube Gallery about his new art show
In the Gallery: Theaster Gates at White Cube Bermondsey | White Cub
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Exhibition runs from 7th of February to the 6th of April 2025
American artist and professor Theaster Gates talks about his art show “1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise” at the The White Cube Gallery Bermondsey.
‘‘Malcolm in Winter’ is about a few things, it's what happens when you decide to activate an archive that has a particular political potency and social potency. It's me grappling with the ideologies of a kind of black revolutionary relative to my artistic practice.’ – Theaster Gates
“On the occasion of Theaster Gates's exhibition ‘1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise’ at White Cube Bermondsey, the artist discusses his new body of work, in which he re-engages with the archive of journalist Ei Nagata and his partner Haruhi Ishitani, to initiate his own artistic dialogue with its collected narratives.
Through a series of architectural interventions, large-scale installations, archival works and new film works, Gates engages with the methods of care and preservation nurtured in Japanese philosophy and craftsmanship, drawing upon them as a framework to consider the role of art and aesthetics in shaping political, ideological and cultural legacies.”
White Cube Gallery
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Produced by White Cube and Theaster Gates Studio.
Video: © White Cube (Lee Pretious).
The Theaster Gates Studio would like to thank:
Haruhi Ishitani and Ei Nagata, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Masataka Hosoo and HOSOO CO., Ltd., Yutaka Oyama, BAROOM, Rika Ishii, Takeshi Suto, Naoki Usuda, Daiki Kikkawa, Seika Mori, Kentaro Miyaji, Mikako Miyaji, Keiichi Shima, Kimiko Funeno, Nobuaki Kadomura, Naohiko Ishikawa, Toshio Sakamoto, Tadashi Fujita, Hiroko Iimura, Masaki Ueda, Julio Koshiishi and Kaya Higashino.
