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Still from Dance of Malaga
Exhibition
Theaster Gates: Amalgam
13 Dec 2019 – 3 May 2020
Cost of entry
£10.50 / FREE for Members
Admission £10.50
Concession £8.50
Address
- Albert Dock
- Liverpool
- L3 4BB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Liverpool ONE Bus Station on Canning Street is directly opposite the Albert Dock, approximately 365 metres from Tate Liverpool. Route C4 also stops at the Albert Dock.
- The nearest train station to Tate Liverpool is James Street station, Liverpool L27PQ (720 metres approx.). For travel within Merseyside plan your journey at merseyrail.org.
Explore the complex and interweaving issues of race, territory and inequality in Amalgam by Theaster Gates.
About
Tate Liverpool presents Theaster Gates: Amalgam, a series of installations by American artist Theaster Gates (b. 1973). Amalgam, a word used to describe a blending of different elements, is reflective of Gates’s practice. Combining sculptures, film, dance and music the exhibition explores the complex and interweaving issues of race, territory, and inequality in the United States.
The word amalgam has also been used in the past as a derogatory term to refer to racial, ethnic and religious mixing. Theaster Gates: Amalgam takes as its point of departure the history of Malaga, a small island off the northeast state of Maine, USA. Visitors to the exhibition can expect to see three-large scale works responding to the history of Malaga.
This is the first major exhibition in the UK of Theaster Gates. The artist was born in Chicago where he continues to live and work. Gates is best known for his architectural interventions and restoration projects, and his deep interest in how knowledge and history is created and interpreted. His work in South Side is reminiscent of the ongoing work in the Granby area of Liverpool, using art to transform places.
