Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto Italy

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Contemporary Art

1991

Felix Gonzalez-Torres
American, built-in Cuba, 1957–1996

Felix Gonzalez-Torres's work is characterized by a sense of tranquility elegy. He possessed an uncanny ability to produce elegant and restrained sculptural forms out of common materials. "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) consists of commercially available, shiny wrapped confections. The physical form of the work changes depending on the style it is installed. The ideal weight of the piece of work, 175 pounds, corresponds to the boilerplate body weight of an developed male. Every bit visitors cull to take candy from the piece of work, the volume and weight of the work decrease.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Championship: "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
Origin: Usa
Date: 1991
Medium: Candies individually wrapped in multicolor cellophane, endless supply
Dimensions: Dimensions vary with installation; ideal weight 175 lbs.
Credit Line: Promised gift of Donna and Howard Stone
Reference Number: 1.1999
Copyright: © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation.

David Pagel, "World of Gonzalez-Torres. Testers on Joy and Despair," Los Angeles Times (Nov. 7, 1991), section F, p. half-dozen (ill.).
R. J. Merrill, "Rituals and Allegories. Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Luhring Augustine Hetzler," Artweek (Nov. 14, 1991), p. 14 (ill.).
Nicola White, Simon Watney and Vito Russo, Read My Lips: New York AIDS Polemics, exh. cat. (Glasgow: Tramway, 1992): 49 (ill.).
Nancy Spector, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres," in Felix Gonzalez-Torres, exh. true cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1995), pp. 150–51, 222–23 (sick.).
"Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Album)," in Blocnotes, Sept./Oct. 1996, p. 87 (ill.).
Gerhard Mack, "Am Fusse des Kulturpalastes," in St. Galler Tagblatt (Oct xxx, 1996), n.pag. (sick.).
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Catalogue Raisonné, exh. cat. by Dietmar Elger (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1997), true cat. 168 (color ill.).
Lisa Stein, "What a concept: Museums try to preserve fine art when it goes across objects," Chicago Tribune (Oct 22, 2000), section seven, p. 14 (sick.).
Elena Carotti, Terry Piazzoli, and Joy Ledgister-Holness, eds., Il Dono: The Gift (Milan: Edizioni Charta, 2001), p. 195 (ill.).
Nancy Spector, Cream 3: 10 Curators, 100 Gimmicky Artists, 10 Source Artists, (London: Phaidon, 2003), p. 426 (sick.).
Jean Sousa, A Guide to Looking at Art: Faces, Places and Inner Spaces, (New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2006), pp. 32, 46 (ill.).
"Gallery Ane: Felix Gonzales-Torres," Queer Cultural Center On-Line Programs,
http://world wide web.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixGallery.html.
General Reference:
Suzanne Perling Hudson, "Beauty and the Status of Gimmicky Criticism," October 104 (Spring 2003), pp. 124–26.
Caroline Culp, Alexis Bard Johnson, Yinshi Lerman-Tan, Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, Natalie Pellolio, Missing Persons, exh. cat. (Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2015), pp. 6 (colour ill); 12 (color ill), 67.

Los Angeles, Luhring Augustine Hetzler Gallery, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres," October 19–November 16, 1991.
Pully, Switzerland, Musee D'Art Contemporain, "Post Human," June fourteen–September xiii, 1992; traveled to Rivoli, Italy, Castello di Rivoli, June 14–September 13, 1992, Athens, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Fine art, Dec 3–Feb 14, 1993, Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, March 12–May 9, 1993, and Jerusalem, Israel Museum, June 21–October 10, 1993 (cat. not nevertheless establish).
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, "Works on loan from the Drove of Vivian and David Campbell," January 21–August 6, 1993.
Hovikodden, Norway, Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Art Center, "Thema Aids," May viii–July viii, 1993; traveled to Bergen, Norway Museum, July–November, Hagen, Frg Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Nov 30, 1993–January 9, 1994 (cat. non still found).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties," September thirteen, 1997–Jan 13, 1998, cat. 9 (colour ill.).
Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani, "Artificial. Contemporary Figures," January 20–March 15, 1998, p. 49 (ill.).
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, "Culbutes Oevre d'impertienence" ("Caput over Heels into the Millennium"), November 18–April 23, 2000, p. 36–37 (ill.).
New York, Luhring Augustine Gallery, "Untitled (Sculpture)," January 8–February 12, 2000.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, "The American Century: Art and Culture 1900–2000," September 26, 1999–February 13, 2000, p. 355 (ill.).
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, "s(how)," May 3–July 27, 2003.
Chicago, the Museum of Gimmicky Fine art, "Universal Feel: Fine art, Life and the Tourist'southward Heart," February 12–June 5, 2005; traveled to London, Hayward Gallery, Oct six–December 11, 2005 and Italy, Museo de Arte Moderna e Conteporanea de Trento e Rovereto (MART), February 10–May 14, 2006, p. 189 (color ill.).
Bern, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Bern, "Vi Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead," Nov 2, 2006–Jan 21, 2007, pp. 188, 194 (colour ill.), 212, 216 as Untitled (Portrait of Ross in 50.A.); traveled to Deutsche Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, 22 September 2007–3 March 2008.
New York, Apexart, "Let Everything be Temporary, or When is the Exhibition?" Jan ten–February 17, 2007, n.pag. (color ill).
Brussels, Kingdom of belgium, WIELS Centre d'Art Contemporain, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form," sixteen Jan–25 April 2010; traveled to Basel, Foundation Beyeler, 1 May–1 September 2010 and Frankfurt, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, 15 September–1 December 2010.
Aarhus, Denmark, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, "This is Love?" 27 March–12 September 2010.
Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," 22 Oct 2010–6 February 2011; traveled to Brooklyn Museum of Art, xviii November 2011–18 February 2012, and Tacoma Art Museum, 17 March–10 June 2012.
Chicago, Smart Museum of Fine art, "FEAST: Radical Hospitality and Gimmicky Art," xvi Feb–10 June 2012.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," 18 September–31 Dec 2012; traveled to Pittsburgh, 2 February–28 April 2013.
Chicago, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, "Creative Interventions: Felix Gonzalez-Torres," 6 September–ix December 2012.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Ackland Art Museum, "More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s," 1 February–31 March 2013.
Palo Alto, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Middle for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Missing Persons, November. 11, 2015–March 21, 2016, no cat. no.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible," i March-4 September, 2016
Arhaus, Denmark, ARoS Arhaus Kunstmuseum, "Objects of Wonder," 10 Dec 2019- 1 March 2020.

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