#gonzalez-torres

[ecstaticmagic]

“UNTITLED"(APARICIÓN), Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1992.

[yourbleedingh3art]

[deartsign]

Without the painful truths, there was no depth, there was no story. We could all easily view Perfect Lovers (Forever) in a still image and there would be no difference. In removing this conflict, what more do we lose? In this sense, I began to see how life is a tragic beauty. We do not necessarily need to live through the struggles of not being accepted in society or the pains of losing love, but if we live a life with no downs, how will we know how to live a life with highs of fighting for our beliefs or loving someone so fully that it feels truly perfect? As humans, we crave the disunity no matter how much we dislike it because, eventually, we will all reach our fulfilling resolutions to come full circle and start again with new discord.

Hannah Lim on Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Perfect Lovers)

[glass-chalice]

Untitled (USA TODAY)

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

1990

[philamuseum]

Happy birthday to Cuban-born American artist Félix Gonzalez-Torres, who would have turned 59 years old today. This simple string of lightbulbs can be arranged in any formation, which gives this work an infinite number of arrangements and interpretations. How would you choose to display this work of art?

“Untitled” (Petit Palais), 1992, by Felix Gonzalez-Torres

[becomingarchitecture]

Christopher Wool and Felix Gonzalez-Torres

[moma]

On World AIDS Day, we remember artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died from the disease in 1996, and all those we've lost. This evocative photograph Gonzalez-Torres took of his own bed is especially poignant given the loss of his partner, Ross Laycock, in the year he produced the work. 

[Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Untitled. 1991. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, New York. Photo by David Allison]

[whitneymuseum]

Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled” (America) (1994–95), as seen from Gansevoort Street.