‘A World Waiting to Be Restored’: Watch Artist Theaster Gates Use Clay to ‘Remake’ the World | Artnet News
For the first time ever, a non-architect has designed the Serpentine Pavilion, which opened to visitors in London earlier this month.With the help of architect David Adjaye, artist Theaster Gates, whose work cannot be simply categorized, and who has long been invested in the architecture of his native Chicago, transformed the Pavilion into a work titled Black Chapel.Inspired by a range of architectural touchstones, including the Rothko Chapel in Texas, the work also incorporates an homage to Gates’s late father, who was a roofer.