Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) was a Cuban artist who 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 of AIDS related complications. The estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres is represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery, N.Y.
His work was the focus of several major museum solo exhibitions in his lifetime and after his death. Retrospectives of his work have been organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1995), the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany (1997), and the Serpentine Gallery in London (2000).
Gonzalez-Torres was known for his quiet, minimal installations and sculptures. Using materials such as strings of lightbulbs, clocks, stacks of paper, or packaged hard candies, Felix Gonzalez-Torres's work is sometimes considered a reflection of his experience with AIDS. Many of Gonzalez-Torres's installations invite the viewer to take a piece of the work with them: a series of works allow viewers to take packaged candies from a pile in the corner of an exhibition space, while another series is comprised of stacks of ultrathin sheets of clear plastic or unlimited edition prints, also free for the viewer to take. These installations are replenished by the exhibitor as they are diminished. The most pervasive reading of Gonzalez-Torres's work takes the processes his works undergo (lightbulbs expiring, piles of candies dispersing, etc.) as metaphor for the process of dying. One of his most recognizable works, Untitled(1992) is a billboard put up in New York City of a monochrome photograph of an unoccupied bed, made after the death of his lover, Ross, to AIDS.
In one interview, he said "When people ask me, 'Who is your public?' I say honestly, without skipping a beat, 'Ross.' The public was Ross. The rest of the people just come to the work."
From wikipedia
Who I'd like to meet: Everyone who would like to remember Felix Gonzales-Torres and keep the art world alive.
Comizi, stampa fotografica su materiale plastico (due
fotografie di comizi politici da archivi internet, inizi anni 60 e 2000) bordi
in tessuto, ricami con filo rosso, cancellature, pittura a smalto. cm.77 x 30
Comizi / Meetings,
photographic print on plastic material (two photos of political meetings
from internet files, early 60' and 2000)
textiles borders, embroideries with red thread, cancellations,enamel paint.
cm.77 x 30
UNDER COVER NATION 2009. copia de "L'uomo Vogue", copertina cancellata, pagine incollate, fotografia dell'emigrante italiano Domenico al porto di Buenos Aires nel 1965 ( da archivi internet) montato in verticale sotto una scatola di plexiglass
UNDER COVER NATION 2009. "L'uomo Vogue" copy , cancelled cover, glued pages, the italian emigrant Domenico's photo at the Buenos Aires's port in 1965 ( from internet archives) mounted in vertical under plexiglass box.
red box, silver inscription: "beati pauperes" (Matteo 5,3. beatitudines), image from an original photo by Tano D'Amico ( 70's) photographed from the computer screen and darkened in two times up to almost disappear, sequence mounted under 2 cms of plexiglass.
Maison Pop' de Montreuil et Cinéma Le Méliès Saison 2008/2009
La Maison Pop’ et le cinéma Le Méliès de Montreuil invitent pour la seconde année le peuple qui manque qui proposera et présentera une histoire des corps insurgés, au travers d’un panorama de films rares, documentaires, vidéos d'artistes, cinéma d’avant-garde et fictions.
Premières séances du cycle de films:
Mercredi 5 novembre 2008 à 20h au Cinéma Le Méliès Happening ! (Jean-Jacques Lebel / Ben & Fluxus) Ou quand le théâtre explose / avec Lebel, Jodorowsky, Arrabal, Topor, Moorman, et Ben...
Vendredi 5 décembre 2008 à 20h30 à la Maison Pop' Reclaim the streets Mouvement altermondialiste & Média-Activisme
Mercredi 14 janvier 2009 à 20h au Cinéma Le Méliès Le droit à la folie L'expérience La Borde / avec Felix Guattari, Jean Oury et Min Tanaka
Mercredi 18 février 2009 à 20h au Cinéma Le Méliès Sankofa Films & Isaac Julien Ou quand le black cinema s'insurge
"360 dpi", 360x360, 360 dpi jpeg file, 2009
