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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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Facts about Felix Gonzalez-Torres

   Publications  Book References:  10
Magazine References:  13

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13 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTFORUM Previews September 2006 Editors Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews May 2006 Editor Yes
ARTnews Sticks & Stones & Lemon Cough Drops September 2002 Hochfield, Sylvia Yes
Art & Antiques The Top 100 Collectors in America March 2002 Bryant, Kathy; Cathy Byrd Yes
ARTFORUM What You Say is What You See October 2001 Relyea, Lane Yes
Art & Auction (bitter) Sweet Charity April 2001 Vincent, Steven Yes
ARTFORUM Preview: Winter 2001 January 2001 Editors, Art Forum No
ARTnews Baffgled, Bewildered and Smitten September 2000 Sheets, Hilarie M Yes
ARTnews The ARTNews 200 August 1999 Esterow, Milton Yes
ARTnews Changing Faces March 1999 Kunitz, Daniel Yes
Art-Talk Fall Sales January 1998 Editor, Art-talk No
ARTnews Art News April 1996 Editors, Art News Yes
Art in America Setting Traps for the Mind January 1996 Storr, Robert No
10 Book References for Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
360 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Meyer, James What You Say is What You See 340 Yes
2000 Ed, Virginia Museum/Richmond Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art 0 No
1999 Larsen, Lars et all Art at the Turn of the Millennium 561 Yes
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1996 Clearwater, Bonnie (others) Defining the Nineties Consensus Making in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles
(Exhibition catalog)
128 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1990 Lippard, Lucy R Mixed Blessings New Art in a Multicultural America 279 Yes
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