Theaster Gates and the Black Monks: Amalgam Vinyl Will Sheldon moving freely within an ever-expanding

moving freely within an ever-expanding field of aesthetic issues and cultural inspirations

from Donatello and Constantin Brancusi to Japanese gardens and Machu Picchu

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but also distant memories of the Alpine landscape of his youth

the striking sculpture transforms when viewed from different angles

Theaster Gates and the Black Monks: Amalgam Vinyl Will Sheldon moving freely within an ever-expandingProduced by James William Blades, Amalgam is composed of eleven songs that provide the soundtrack to Theaster Gatess film Dance of Malaga (2019), which premiered at the artists solo exhibition Amalgam at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2018. Inspired by the forced relocation of mixed race people from Malaga Island in Maine, the exhibition explored the fraught interweaving of race, territory, and inequality. The album is pressed on two heavyweight 180