Theaster Gates
dal 9/11/2012 al 20/12/2012
Segnalato da
9/11/2012
Theaster Gates
Locust Projects, Miami
Soul Manufacturing Corporation. Gates will create a factory consisting of 4 pavilions, occupied by 'skilled makers'. Concurrently, he will host programs by a yoga instructor, a DJ, and a reader, all there to care for the makers and the audience. The exhibition will also include sculptural and two-dimensional works. In the project room works by Jacin Giordano.
Now celebrating its 15th year of exhibiting experimental contemporary art, Locust Projects
is pleased to present Soul Manufacturing Corporation by Chicago-based artist Theaster
Gates, whose critically acclaimed installation 12 Ballads for Huguenot House was recently
featured in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany. For the first gallery exhibition of this
multi-disciplinary project, Gates will create a factory consisting of four pavilions, occupied
by “skilled makers” who will work in Locust Projects’ main gallery. Beginning with an empty
space, the "skilled makers" will produce “things” through the duration of the exhibition.
Concurrently, Soul Manufacturing Corporation will host programs by a yoga instructor, a
DJ, and a reader, all there to care for the makers and the audience. Inspiration for this
programming stems from the lectors who presented news, politics, and literature to
illiterate workers in the early industrial era. Soul Manufacturing Corporation is in its second
year of exploring and creating relationships between aesthetics, labor and race.
Gates is known for his performances, installations, and urban interventions, which
transform spaces, institutions, traditions, and perceptions. His training as an urban planner
and sculptor, and subsequent time spent studying clay, has given him keen awareness of
the poetics of production and systems of organizing. Playing with these poetic and
systematic interests, Gates has assembled gospel choirs, formed temporary unions, and
used systems of mass production as a way of underscoring the need that industry has for
the body. When Gates is not making art for museums, he is converting abandoned
buildings into cultural spaces that allow not only new cultural moments to happen in
unexpected places, but raise the expectations of where “place-making” happens and why.
The exhibition will also include sculptural and two-dimensional works, created with
materials sourced from sites in Chicago and Miami, underscoring Gates' interest in the poetics of re-purposed and salvaged materials.
ABOUT THEASTER GATES
Theaster Gates was born in 1973. He lives and works in Chicago. He has had solo
exhibitions at Seattle Art Museum (2011), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
(2011), Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago (2011), Milwaukee Art Museum (2010) and the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2009). His work has been shown in group
exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2010) and the Tokoname Museum
of Ceramic History, Japan (2005). He also featured in ‘dOCUMENTA 13’, Kassel, Germany
(2012), the ‘Armory Show’, New York (2011) and ‘Whitney Biennial’, Whitney Museum of
American Art,
New York (2010). One of his most esteemed projects is ‘Dorchester Projects’ (2006), which
is ongoing. For his exhibition My Labor is My Protest (2012), Gates honored his father’s
work as a roofer as an alternative form of protest during the American Civil Rights Era by
transforming one gallery into a library of race-related literature with over 10,000 books,
open to the public at White Cube Gallery in London.
Soul Manufacturing Corporation is a multi-city initiative based in Chicago that works in tan-
dem with the Rebuild Foundation, an urban redevelopment organization dedicated to the
creative re-use of buildings and design education throughout communities of color.
2013 marks the 15th anniversary of Locust Projects, a not-for-profit exhibition space
founded by three Miami artists in order to provide contemporary visual artists the freedom
to experiment with new ideas and methods without the limitations of conventional exhibi-
tion spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of
their representative work, and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to
develop their ideas. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting
venue for the Miami and international art community to experience new work and meet the
artists.
Conversation with the artist: Wednesday, November 14, 7pm
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PROJECT ROOM
Jacin Giordano
Wound, Bound, Tied and Knotted
Locust Projects is pleased to announce Wound, Bound, Tied and Knotted, an
exhibition of new work by Jacin Giordano. Inspired by the organic dimensionality of
the tree branches that form his stretchers, Giordano wraps and weaves webs of
multicolored yarn to create his painting surface. Coated with layers of acrylic paint
and dye, the paintings extend to the wall of the Project Room, giving the impression
of a bas-relief sculpture. Giordano’s work is inspired by sources ranging from
process-based painting, folk and self-taught fiber arts, and natural history. This will
be the artist’s first installation project incorporating painting and sculpture into the
architecture of a space.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jacin Giordano was born in 1978 and grew up in Miami. He received a BFA in
painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, where he graduated Cum
Laude. Giordano has recently exhibited at The Miami Art Museum in Miami, FL,
The Harn Museum of Art at University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, The Bass
Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, and The Frost Art Museum at FIU, Miami, FL.
Giordano is represented by Galerie Sultana in Paris, France. The artist currently
lives and works in Western Massachusetts.
Opening reception: November 10, 7-10pm
Locust Projects
3852 North Miami Avenue, Miami
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-5pm
Extended gallery hours for Art Basel Miami Beach: December 3 - 8, 9am-5pm
Reception for the artist: Thursday, December 6, 7-10pm
On view through December 21, 2012