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Felix Gonzalez-Torres

By David Breslin

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

By David Breslin

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One of the most significant artists to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s reduced formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor, and evocative use of everyday materials resonates with meaning that is at once specific and mutable, rigorous and generous, poetic and political. Featuring several key bodies of work from throughout the artist’s career, this publication showcases a series of distinct installations at David Zwirner in New York in 2017. The interplay with the specific architecture of the gallery and the way works are installed is highlighted throughout the catalogue, with images that explore the poetics of how space and work influence each other. Together, in their radical openness to interventions of site, audience, and context, the works on view challenge perceived notions of what constitutes an exhibition space, a public, an artwork itself. Despite the resolute abstraction of much of his work, Gonzalez-Torres worked with familiar materials, from his iconic candy spill works and his evocative light string pieces, but also including mirrors, clocks, and curtains. His work activates the architecture of the various spaces, the physicality of the viewer, the past and present, continuously maintaining its relevance. Opening with details of the exhibition and images of visitors in the spaces, the publication walks the reader through each piece. New text by David Breslin explores the variety of works included here while contextualizing Gonzalez-Torres’s contribution to art history.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
108
Release Date:
2018-06-26
Publication Date:
2018-06-14
Publisher:
David Zwirner
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1941701760
ISBN13:
9781941701768
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
846 g
Height:
219 cm
Width:
302 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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