21 x 10cm, 6pp program for events and concerts taking place around the major installation during Art Basel where the artist explored the cult around dark skinned effigies of the virgin Mary. This included a concert by the Black Monks (Gate's experimental jazz group). Two images of the artist musician plus text in German and English. VG+.

JOINT:

Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel, 2018

6 x 15cm, 1pp typographic ticket for the exhibition and concert. VG.

21 x 10cm, 8pp promotional brochure for the major installation during Art Basel where the artist explored the cult around dark skinned effigies of the virgin Mary using the museum's own archives alongside Gate's own collections of photographs and documents from African American history. Three images of works by Gates and one painting of a madonna as well as the found image of a black woman on the front. Text in German and English. VG+.

50 x 35cm, black on white silkscreen poster on  thin card with texts relating to Gates' now famous archive of works and documents relating to African American culture.

Limited edition only available during the exhibition at Art Basel.

Gates is the lead singer of the band The Black Monks of Mississippi and has been appointed the first distinguished visiting artist and director of artist initiatives at the Lunder Institute for American Art, which is part of the Colby College Museum of Art. An urban planner by training, he rose to renown with Dorchester Projects, an urban redevelopment endeavour on Chicago’s impoverished South Side that he has described as «real estate art». His work continually aims to bridge the gulf between art and society and establish cultural communities as a way of initiating social, political, architectural, and urban change.

According to the Kunstmuseum weebsite: "Gates sees himself as a collector of collections and archives, especially of America’s black culture. He is especially interested in forgotten objects, images, and themes, which he integrates into his own creative practice. As a collector of marginalized and obscure archives, Gates will join the Kunstmuseum Basel in a critical engagement with the museum’s Eurocentric collection that will broach fundamental questions concerning its spatial and organizational structures. In his exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, which will be spread out across two of the museum’s venues, Gates will explore the cult of the Black Madonna, examining both its significance in the history of religion and its aesthetic and metaphorical tenor."

This is one of two variant designs for this work. We offer the other also on this website.