西斯特·盖茨：黑人社区里的艺术家_时事

西斯特·盖茨：黑人社区里的艺术家

这一切都是他通过捐款、赠物和出售自己艺术作品所得来买单的。他的作品从2010年开始火起来，当时他以芝加哥西部社区枢纽Shine King沿街擦鞋店的擦鞋座椅为原型，制作了一系列木质擦鞋座椅。

Amid his heavy thinking about sacred spaces, he says it finally dawned on him that his family's go-to shoe-shine shop 'mattered as much to me as any museum.' If he made art that showed how much he valued it, maybe outsiders would value the place differently.

他说，他对神圣空间进行了深思，最终悟出家人去的擦鞋店“对我来说重要性不亚于任何美术馆。如果他能在艺术创作中体现他对某种东西有多么珍视，也许旁观者也会以不同的视角珍视这个地方。

It worked: Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta took one look at the towering wooden 'thrones' that Gates started building and agreed to take a group to the country's pre-eminent art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, in 2010. Chicago collector Larry Fields paid around $15,000 for one upholstered in glittery red and yellow fabric; nowadays, he thinks his throne could resell for at least $60,000.

这种方法奏效了：2010年，芝加哥艺术经纪人古普塔(Kavi Gupta)注意到盖茨着手打造的高耸的木质“宝座，他同意带一批去参加美国著名艺术展巴塞尔迈阿密艺术博览会(Art Basel Miami Beach)。芝加哥收藏家菲尔兹(Larry Fields)以约15,000美元购买了一个套着闪闪发光的红黄相间织物的“宝座；现在，他认为自己能以至少六万美元的价格将“宝座转手卖出。