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

盖茨生性喜爱交际，是一家九个孩子中最小的一个，父亲是一位屋顶修葺工。盖茨曾教授制陶工艺，并研究过城市规划，之后与他的福音音乐合唱团密西西比黑僧侣(Black Monks of Mississippi)一起进入芝加哥的表演艺术界。无论是在城市规划理事会会议还是在美术展上，盖茨都颇有名气，如今他在艺术界也是声名鹊起。

He's been in at least a dozen museum shows over the past four years - a veritable smothering of curatorial attention for an artist who's had only a pair of gallery shows to formally unveil his work. For the Whitney Biennial in 2010, he transformed the museum's courtyard into a temple furnished with Wrigley chewing-gum factory pallets and spindly wooden sculptures that evoked shoe-shine stands. Every so often, he popped by with his Monks to sing deep-throated songs about the legacies of labor unions and industrial workers. Some heavyweight collectors in Chicago, like Patric McCoy and Deone Jackman, once paid as little as $5,000 for his works; now, collectors world-wide spend as much as a million dollars apiece for his latest installations.

在过去四年里，盖茨至少参加了十二场美术展──作为一位作品只在两家画廊正式展出的艺术家，他在策展方面的确投入了极大的精力。在2010年的惠特尼双年展(Whitney Biennial)上，他把博物馆的庭院改造成为一个殿堂，饰有箭牌(Wrigley)口香糖工厂货盘和让人联想到擦鞋摊的细长木雕。他还时不时地与他的合唱团一道演唱低沉的歌曲，讲述工会和产业工人遗存下来的精神财富。麦科伊(Patric McCoy)和杰克曼(Deone Jackman)等一些芝加哥重量级收藏家曾以低至5,000美元的价格购买他的作品；而现在，全球收藏家会以每件高达100万美元的价格购买他最新的装置作品。

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