Villa Medici, Rome, Italy, 2018
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2016
David Zwirner, New York, NY, 2017
Hauser and Wirth, London, 2016
Sonora, Mexico City, Mexico, 2018
“Untitled”, 1989
"Untitled" (My Soul of Life), 1991
“Untitled”, 1988
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, 2006
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, 2006
“Untitled”, 1992/1993
“Untitled”, 1989
“Untitled” (Portrait of the Stillpasses), 1991
Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2015-2016
"Untitled" (America), 1994
52nd International Art Exhibition, la Biennale de Venezia, 2007
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2013
"Untitled" Placebo, 1991
"Untitled" (USA Today), 1990
"Untitled" (Golden), 1995
"Untitled" (Loverboy), 1989 and "Untitled" (March 5th) #1, 1991
"Untitled" (Perfect Lovers), 1987-1990
"Untitled" (It's Just a Matter of Time), 1992
“Untitled”, 1989
Throughout his career, Gonzalez-Torres’s involvement in social and political causes fueled his interest in the overlap of private and public life. From 1987 to 1991, he was part of Group Material, a New York-based art collective whose members worked collaboratively to initiate community education and cultural activism. His aesthetic project was, according to some scholars, related to Bertolt Brecht’s theory of epic theater, in which creative expression transforms the spectator from an inert receiver to an active, reflective observer and motivates social action. Employing simple, everyday materials (stacks of paper, puzzles, candy, strings of lights, beads) and a reduced aesthetic vocabulary reminiscent of both Minimalism and Conceptual art to address themes such as love and loss, sickness and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality, Gonzalez-Torres asked viewers to participate in establishing meaning in his works.
During his lifetime, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) was the subject of several important museum exhibitions, including Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Traveling (1994) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, and a retrospective organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1995), which traveled to the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, and ARC-Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 2010-11 Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels; Fondation Beyeler, Basel, and Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt hosted the six-part retrospective Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Specific Objects without Specific Form. His works have been included in hundreds of curated group shows worldwide. Gonzalez-Torres represented the United States at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.
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Published on the occasion of the first museum presentation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's work in Asia at PLATEAU, and Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, June 21 - 28 Sept. 28, 2012
Felix Gonzalez-Torres lived and worked resolutely according to his own idealistic principles, combining elements of Conceptual art, Minimalism, political activism, and poetic beauty in an ever-expanding arsenal of media, including public billboards, give-away piles of candy and posters, and ordinary objects--clocks, mirrors, light fixtures--used to startling effect. His work challenged the notions of public and private space, originality, authorship and--most significantly--the authoritative structures in which he and his viewers functioned. Editor Julie Ault has amassed the first comprehensive monograph to span Gonzalez-Torres's career. In the spirit of his method, she rethinks the very idea of what a monograph should be. The book, which places strong emphasis on the written word, contains newly commissioned texts by Robert Storr and Miwon Kwon, an introduction by Susan Cahill and an extended conversation with fellow artist Tim Rollins, as well as significant critical essays, exhibition statements, transcripts from lectures, personal correspondence, and writings that influenced Gonzalez-Torres and his work. Ample visual documentation adds another important layer of content. We see works not just in their completed state, but often in process, which for Gonzalez-Torres could mean the process of disappearing as viewers interacted with them.
Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London, June 1 – July 16 2000.
Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: Serpentine Gallery (June 2000)
ISBN-10: 1870814371
ISBN-13: 978-1870814379
Catalogue Raisonné in two volumes, published in conjunction with the posthumous 1997 traveling retrospective at Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria.
Hardcover: 296 pages
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers (July 2, 1997)
ISBN-10: 3893228837
ISBN-13: 978-3893228836
Originally published to accompany the artist's solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1995, and reissued on the occasion of the 2007 Venice Biennale (June 1-November 21), where Felix Gonzalez-Torres would represent the United States.
Written by Nancy Spector in close consultation with the artist and reflecting and expanding upon his ideas at the time, Felix Gonzalez-Torres presents a thematic overview of the artist's rich, many-layered practice, including the signature paper stacks, candy spills, light strings and billboards--and demonstrates his continued resonance today.
Nancy Spector is Chief Curator at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and U.S. Commissioner to the 2007 Venice Biennale.
Hardcover: 228 pages
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum (May 1, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0892073624
ISBN-13: 978-0892073627
Published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition, Felix Gonzalez-Torres at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. April 24 – June 19, 1994. Co-organized by Amanda Cruz, Ann Goldstein and Suzanne Ghez; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. June 16 – Sept. 11, 1994.; The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL., Oct. 2 – 6 Nov. 6, 1994
Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap) (June 2, 1994)
ISBN-10: 0914357352
ISBN-13: 978-0914357353
Felix Gonzalez-Torres' work is currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the group exhibition Infinite Blue. The exhibition runs until November 5, 2017.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Image: "Untitled" (Water), 1995 © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation
Palais de Tokyo's "Carte Blance" to Tino Sehgal includes works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The exhibition is on view from October 12 through December 18, 2016.
For more information, please visit the institution's website.
Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du Président Wilson
75 116 Paris
Image: "Untitled" (Chemo), 1991 © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation
The Felix Gonzalez-Torres exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery is reviewed on artforum.com.
The New Museum
235 Bowery, New York, NY
Andrea Rosen Gallery is pleased to announce the inclusion of works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Andrea Zittel, and Wolfgang Tillmans in NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, currently on view at the New Museum through May 26, 2013.