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Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Artist's Name: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Preferred medium: installation
birth year: 1957
Nationality: CU
City: New York

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Profile

Felix Gonzalez-Torres was not interested in making art that allowed the viewer to remain a spectator. His work offers the viewer an opportunity to contribute his or her own experiences, and to participate in the meaning of the work. In Untitled (Lover Boys), 1991, (on loan from the Goetz Collection, Munich), an "endless" supply of candy lies shimmering on the gallery floor, gathered together at an ideal weight of 355 pounds - alluding to the combined weight of Gonzalez-Torres and his partner. Without any sign stating so, the viewer is invited to take and eat a piece of candy. Every night the "spill" is replenished and lives on in a constant cycle of loss and regeneration. In Untitled (Republican Years), 1992, (from the collection of the Sprengel Museum, Hannover), a stack of paper, on which only a pair of black lines borders the perfect rectangle, sits on the otherwise empty floor. The viewer has the choice to take a sheet of paper or leave it behind. Gonzalez-Torres understood that the audience's ability to connect physically to his work gave it additional emotional and seductive force. (Fraenkel Gallery)

important exhibitions from Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Specific Objects without Specific Form MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt DE 29.01.2011
Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation Beyeler Riehen CH 22.05.2010
Felix Gonzalez-Torres Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin Berlin DE 01.10.2006
Contemporary Galleries MoMA - Museum of Modern Art New York US 17.11.2011
I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing MoMA - Museum of Modern Art New York US 23.03.2011
The Bulletin Board - Felix Gonzales Torres White Columns New York US 20.02.2007
Mapping the Studio Punta della Dogana Venedig IT 06.06.2009
Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Specific Objects without Specific Form WIELS Brüssel Brüssel BE 16.01.2010
American Exuberance Rubell Family Collection Miami US 30.11.2011
Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York US 02.10.2009

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Galleries representing
Felix Gonzalez-Torres:

Andrea Rosen Gallery

Collections representing
Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea
Collection Lambert en Avignon
Ellipse Foundation
Hessel Museum of Art
K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus
Metropolitan Museum
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA
Punta della Dogana
Rubell Family Collection
Sammlung Goetz
Sammlung Hoffmann
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA
UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art