Theaster Gates : 12 Ballads for Huguenot House - Gates, Theaster / Darling, Michael
12 Ballads for Hugenot House
KORTE INHOUD
In his 12 Ballads for Huguenot House, Theaster Gates chronicles his ambitious project to unite two disused buildings – one in Chicago and the other in Kassel, Germany – by dismantling parts of each to reuse in the rebuilding of the other.The forgotten and dilapidated Huguenot House, built during the early nineteenth century in Kassel, attracted the attention of Gates, as he would associate the histories of the migrant workers who built it so many years ago with that of black and Hispanic builders in his own neighbourhood in Chicago today. Meanwhile, across the ocean, Gates eyed a large, decaying building in Chicago, whose architectural details have remained intact.Gates envisioned an exchange and ultimately proposed to bring materials from the Chicago building to renovate the Huguenot House. The process will also be reversed: materials from the Huguenot House will later be reused to reconstruct the building in Chicago. In the pages of this book, Gates documents his plans for the exchange, and all of its elabo...
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2012Uitgever: Museum of Contemporary Art / Documenta 13 / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig128 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 3863352033ISBN-13: 9783863352035Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Text: EN. 125 p.; ill.; 20 x 28 cm; 830 g. Produced on the occasion of the exhibition "documenta (13)", 9.6.-16.9.2012 and "Theaster Gates - 12 ballades for Huguenot House" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 20.4.2013 - 15.1.2014. Artist's book. Fine copy | Exhibition Catalog | Boekconditie: Fine | Covertype: Hard Cover [Auteur: Gates, Theaster / Darling, Michael] [Uitgever: Museum of Contemporary Art / Documenta 13 / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig] [Jaar: 2012] [Titel: Theaster Gates : 12 ...
