Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces
This book was published on the occasion of Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces, the artist’s mid-career retrospective at the New Museum, New York, curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari. The comprehensive volume documents Theaster Gates’s innovative work in sculpture, social practice, collaborative performance, and archiving over the past twenty years.
Since the early 2000s, Gates has developed new models for art making and social change, researching interdisciplinary histories in order to explore value and economy as well as spiritual and material exchange. In videos, tar paintings, clay vessels, architectural installations, and sculptures made with salvaged materials, Gates traces personal and collective narratives of labor and spirituality, honoring the radical thinkers who have shaped his home city of Chicago and the United States as a whole.
The book features over two hundred illustrations, including the exhibited works and reproductions of other key projects and installations of the last two decades. It includes a text by Gates; a conversation between the artist and Gioni; illustrated essays by Jessica Bell Brown, Carrion-Murayari, Ryan Dohoney, Coco Fusco, and Dieter Roelstraete; and a selected exhibition history.
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited and New Museum, New York
Publication date: 2022
Contributors: Jessica Bell Brown, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Ryan Dohoney, Coco Fusco, Theaster Gates, Massimiliano Gioni, Dieter Roelstraete
Designers: Neil Donnelly and Siiri Tännler
Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: 9 5/8 × 11 5/8 inches (24.4 × 29.6 cm)
Pages: 280
Language: English
