Theaster Gates and team in front of Dorcester Projects, Chicago.
Image courtesy of W Magazine
The list of artists for Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor’s “All the World’s Futures” at the 2015 Venice Biennale has been released, and we’re thrilled that two Chicago-based artists are included in this impressive group, Theaster Gates and Kerry James Marshall.
About the themes explored in the upcoming exhibition, the President of la Biennale di Venezia, Paolo Baratta, is quoted in the press release saying, “The world before us today exhibits deep divisions and wounds, pronounced inequalities and uncertainties as to the future. Despite the great progress made in knowledge and technology, we are currently negotiating an ‘age of anxiety’.”
The fifty-sixth edition of the Venice Biennale opens May 9 with previews beginning May 6, and runs through November 22.
In addition, we can look forward to Kerry James Marshall’s first major museum survey at the MCA Chicago in the Spring of 2016! Read more about this exhibition to honor “one of America’s greatest living painters” here.
Read more about the inspiring work of Theaster Gates in last month’s SLI Art Newsletter.
“You’ve got to invade the space and occupy it in such a way that you can’t be thrown out,” Marshall says of his career strategy: commanding the European art tradition and then putting his stamp on it.”
Kerry James Marshall as quoted by Blake Gopnik in The Washington Post.
Photographed by Warren Skalski.