“Untitled”, 1995
Billboard
Dimensions vary with installation
| Untitled (Placebo), 1993
candy |
| Perfect Lovers, 1987-1990
2 clocks |
| Untitled (North), 1993 electric light fixtures |
Felix Gonzalez-Torres is very interesting and uses many objects for his works and transforms them to make space and time out of them. He was born in 1957 in Cuba, and grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to New York City. Gonzalez-Torres had his first one-man exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery in 1990, where he continued to show his work until his death. Felix Gonzalez-Torres combined the impulses of Conceptual art, Minimalism, political activism, and chance to produce a number of “democratic artworks”— including public billboards, give-away piles of candies, and stacks of paper available to the viewer as souvenirs. These works, often sensuous and directly audience-centered, complicate the questions of public and private space, authorship, originality and the role of institutionalized meaning. He used the stuff of interior design–electric light fixtures, jigsaw puzzles, paired mirrors, wall clocks and beaded curtains–to queer exhibition spaces in the most simple and poignant ways. His primary audience, as he explained in an interview reproduced here, was his lover, Ross (who died of AIDS 6 years before his own death in 1996). Yet his work clearly appeals to a large audience for its combination of formal restraint and emotional lushness. The theme of lovers is comingled with themes of mortality, loss and absence which surface in the later work. Felix Gonzales-Torres was a not-so-secret agent, able to infiltrate main stream consciousness in a most beautiful and poetic way. Activist without being didactic, a catalyst of that rare combination of sensuality and political empathy, he raised the bar on future queer art making, and continues to be one of the most influential artist of his generation.
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixIntro.html
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I find this artist really interesting because he work is really engaging. It really allows you to go up to the work and some works you can take from the piece. I really love the candy piece, I love that people can really come and take a piece of candy from the piece.
I really like how this artists uses the theme of time and relates its to mortality. I really like this piece of the two perfect lovers, which he uses to demonstrate with clocks and how as time passing time, they fall out of the constant rhyme and slowly drift apart from one another.
I enjoyed the meaning behind the the clocks next to each other. I like the fact that it symbolizes love in which the two clocks tick synchronously. On the other hand the same two clocks become unsynchronized which can symbolize the majority of relationship especially here in America where the divorce rate is high.
I really like this artist because it seems like he really knew how to appeal to his viewers, but still keep the same localized theme in his artwork. My favorite of the artwork presented for this author is the one with the two clocks because I think it has strong meaning behind it on relationships and represents his relationship with Ross.
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