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Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957 - 1996) was active/lived in New York, Florida / Cuba.  Felix Gonzalez Torres is known for Minimalism, conceptulism, installation sculpture, floor pieces, graphics.

"Critic's Pick, Art & Design," The New York Times, February 2, 2023 by Holland Cotter

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a Master of Mutability

An ultra-polished survey of the artist’s works at David Zwirner — some not seen before — demonstrate how preservation and change can coexist.

My old friend Shepherd Raimi, who had some 30 years on me, used to say over and over, mantra-like — I can still hear his voice — “Everything changes. All the time.” He wasn’t offering an observation. He was delivering a life lesson, to me, to himself, to anyone listening.

Covid has recently pounded that lesson home hard, but some of us were learning it long before, back in the 1980s and early 90s, as H.I.V./AIDS scythed through our L.G.B.T.Q. community.

The New York artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres was learning it then too, from intimate experience. In 1991, he watched the man who was the love of his life waste away and die of AIDS. Five years later, the artist himself succu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10075 characters.]  Artist bio

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