高古轩香港将展西斯特·盖茨新作展「替代物」：11月19日开幕，展至2027年2月27日
高古轩（Gagosian）11月13日宣布，美国芝加哥艺术家西斯特·盖茨（Theaster Gates）的新作展「替代物」（Surrogate）将于11月19日在高古轩香港开幕，展期至2027年2月27日，地点为香港中环毕打街12号毕打行7楼。11月19日下午5时至6时设媒体预展，晚6时至8时举行开幕酒会。
「替代物」是盖茨创作中反复出现的母题。高古轩介绍，盖茨曾在第十三届卡塞尔文献展上用芝加哥一座废弃建筑的材料修复德国卡塞尔的胡格诺之屋，以退役消防水带讨论民权议题，用焦油影射父子之间的复杂关系，又改造历史档案，对抗黑人群体在历史叙述中的缺席。在他手里，看似平凡的物件被赋予深层情感与意义。
本次展览中，盖茨回望自己的早期创作，把既有视觉语言的元素重新组合、转入新的媒介。他把2011年起创作的「公民挂毯」（Civil Tapestries）系列所用的退役消防水带印入黏土板，让条纹图案进入新材质；2014年起的「体育馆地板」系列以回收的学校体育馆木地板创作，本次新作把地板上的运动标记重排成图形线条，呼应他2010年代末以社会学家 W. E. B. DuBois 与学生1900年所制黑人生活统计图为蓝本的绘画。
展品还包括一件黏土「手袋」，呼应盖茨对容器的长期探索，从陶罐到建筑结构，容器既承载、保护内容物，也成为仪式行为的核心。同场展出三幅「焦油画作」（Tar Paintings），该系列自2011年起以工业屋顶板材层叠构成，材料与其父作为专业屋顶工人的劳动相连；新作各加入具象或象征元素，其中一幅写入汉字「景」，指向辽阔的视野。
高古轩表示，盖茨在「替代物」中把寻常材料转化为带有神圣感的物件，揭示平凡中的不平凡。盖茨另一展览「非洲静物」（African Still Life）正在首尔白立方展出，展期为2026年11月4日至12月18日。
Gagosian Hong Kong to Present 'Surrogate,' New Works by Theaster Gates, Opening November 19
Gagosian announced on November 13 that 'Surrogate,' an exhibition of new works by Chicago artist Theaster Gates, will open at the gallery in Hong Kong on November 19 and run through February 27, 2027, at 7/F Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong. A press preview is set for 5 to 6 p.m. on November 19, followed by an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
The surrogate has been ever present in Gates's practice. According to Gagosian, Gates used the bones of an abandoned Chicago building to restore the Huguenot House in Kassel, Germany, for Documenta 13, presented fire hoses as a proxy for a conversation on civil rights, deployed tar to stand in for the complex relationship between father and son, and repurposed historic archives to counter the invisibility of Black people. Seemingly ordinary objects, in his hands, reveal a depth of emotion and meaning.
For the Hong Kong exhibition, Gates looks back to his earlier work, reconfiguring elements of his own visual vocabulary in new arrangements and mediums. He imprints the decommissioned fire hoses of his Civil Tapestries series, begun in 2011, into clay slabs, carrying the paintings' striated patterns into a new medium. His 'gym floor' works, initiated in 2014 from varnished wood planks reclaimed from school gymnasium floors, here rearrange athletic markings into graphic lines reminiscent of his late-2010s paintings based on statistical infographics of Black life created by sociologist W. E. B. DuBois and his students in 1900.
The exhibition also includes a clay 'handbag,' extending Gates's exploration of the vessel, from clay pots to architectural structures, as a means of carrying and protecting contents and as the center of ritual processes. A trio of Tar Paintings, a series begun in 2011 and made of overlapping industrial roofing panels similar to the materials of his father's trade as a professional roofer, each introduces representational or symbolic elements, including the Chinese character for 'vista.'
Gagosian says that in 'Surrogate,' Gates transmutes common materials into sacred objects, revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary. Gates is also presenting 'African Still Life' at White Cube Seoul from November 4 to December 18, 2026.
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图片来源：图：西斯特·盖茨2024年在东京森美术馆个展开幕活动上。美国驻东京大使馆摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Theaster Gates at the opening of his Mori Art Museum exhibition in Tokyo, 2024. Photo by the Embassy of the United States in Tokyo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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