{"id":5430,"date":"2019-03-12T15:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2024-12-27T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T20:34:44","slug":"5430-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/5430-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gate of the New Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5431\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A0221-HighRes-590x393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A0221-HighRes-590x393.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A0221-HighRes-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A0221-HighRes-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A0221-HighRes-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A0221-HighRes-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A0221-HighRes-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2018<br \/>\nsteel, polypropylene rope, basketball nets, basketballs, paint<br \/>\ndimensions variable<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Basketball star LeBron James\u2019 Los Angeles home was the target of a hate crime when the \u201cN-word\u201d was spray-painted across\u00a0his front gate in May 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In\u00a0<i>Gate of the New Gods<\/i>, an exact scale replication of the gate is combined with a colossal hand made vine of twisted rope, steel tendrils, and basketballs as grapes and leaves made of\u00a0regulation white hoop netting.\u00a0 It is a variable installation with the basketball-grape vine configured to any individual site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Gate of the New Gods<\/i>\u00a0acknowledges the impact of sports\u00a0celebrities in American culture and the quasi god-like quality of LeBron James especially his public stance in the face of\u00a0persistent racism. Responding to the attack on his home, LeBron James commented,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNo matter how much money you have, no matter how famous\u00a0you are, no matter how many people admire you, being black in\u00a0America is tough. We got a long way to go for us as a society and\u00a0for us as African Americans until we feel equal in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chin would like this work to be considered a \u201ckneel-down\u201d to James,\u00a0a triumphant arch of elements of LeBron\u2019s sport above a gateway closed in defiant resistance to the challenges of equality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The gate is replicated in exact material and scale as the gate attacked\u00a0in Los Angeles. As a permanent sentinel of steel, it is a work of art to be\u00a0protected, never to be defaced again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5432\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A9533-HighRes-1-590x393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A9533-HighRes-1-590x393.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A9533-HighRes-1-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A9533-HighRes-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A9533-HighRes-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A9533-HighRes-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MelChin-_71A9533-HighRes-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 steel, polypropylene rope, basketball nets, basketballs, paint dimensions variable Basketball star LeBron James\u2019 Los Angeles home was the target of a hate crime when the \u201cN-word\u201d was spray-painted across\u00a0his front gate in May 2017. In\u00a0Gate of the New Gods, an exact scale replication of the gate is combined with a colossal hand made vine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,39,41,75,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-installations","category-sculpture","category-surrealism","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}