Gallerist Vito Schnabel talks to The Hollywood Reporter about mounting Guest's first solo New York exhibition in two decades and the impression Williams leaves in the works: 'It's a beautiful sentiment.'
that he’s known Guest close to a decade and has always been a fan of his work. They’ve been in talks over the last few years about collaborating and Schnabel says he was particularly taken a few years back by one large-scale work he happened to see. “I asked if he would continue that series of work or if he had more ideas in that scale with the subject matter,” Schnabel recalls.
The unit was the Army’s first African American regiment, instated in 1866 following the Civil War. Guest, who also used the soldiers as inspiration for a graphic novel, combined the novel and the paintings for a deal with Eric Paquette at his Meridian Pictures where he’ll develop the series into a feature film.