Name: In Event of Race Riot
Brand: Theaster Gates
Rating: 4.8 (9 reviews)

In Event of Race Riot

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About the Item

In Event of Race Riot (Tall Gray with Flat Hose) and In Event of Race Riot (Tall Gray and Stained Plywood with Flat Hose) wood, glass, and fire hose 55 1/4 x 28 x 5 1/2 (a) and 6 1/2 (b) in. Signed verso, "Theaster Gates". Provenance: Kavi Gupta Gallery, 2012; Private Collection. This is one of the only fire hose diptych ever created by the artist. About the "In the Event of a Race Riot" series: In his series “In Event of a Race Riot” (2011 onward) lengths of decommissioned fire hoses are carefully folded, rolled or stacked and emphatically presented inside gilt box frames. Tactile and sensuous objects in themselves, the hoses have special iconic significance in relation to the civil rights struggles, in particular with regard to the hosing of peaceful demonstrators in Birmingham, Albama in 1963. The frames act as a device for transformation but also a way to ask the viewer to think again about the still ongoing struggle for civil rights. Theaster Gates was born in 1973 in Chicago, where he lives and works. He has exhibited widely, including group shows such as the Whitney Biennial, New York (2010), dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012), ’The Spirit of Utopia’ at Whitechapel, London (2013) and Studio Museum’s ‘When Stars Collide’ in New York (2014). Solo exhibitions include ‘To Speculate Darkly: Theaster Gates and Dave, the Slave Potter’ at Milwaukee Art Museum (2010), Seattle Art Museum (2011), MCA Chicago (2013) and ‘The Black Monastic’ residency at Museu Serralves, Porto (2014). In 2013, Gates was awarded the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, and he has since won the Artes Mundi 6 prize (2015). Gates is also the founder of the non-profit Rebuild Foundation and currently Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago.

Creator:
Theaster Gates (1973, American)
Creation Year:
2012
Dimensions:
Height: 55.25 in (140.34 cm)Width: 28 in (71.12 cm)
Medium:
Glass,Mixed Media,Wood
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Palm Desert, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: 96281stDibs: LU93949583

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