The Art Book for Children (Book 2) May 14, 2008
64m high bronze sculpture King and Queen, positioned on a hillside overlooking the Scottish countryside, to Felix Gonzalez-Torres whimsical wrapped sweets tribute to his friend Ross. Thinking About Art. (Suite101.com)
Set designer puts his mark on fashion Feb 4, 2008
One season it was a fractured collage of New York City; the next, rolling hills with a river made from 600,000 pieces of candy, an homage to the late conceptual artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Then came a neoclassical villa plucked from Bernardo Bertolucci's movie "The Conformist." And last season, it was a giant video installation with models trooping down the runway in sync to a film by the artist Charles Atlas that showed them doing so in lingerie. (International Herald Tribune)
Art without the artist Jan 7, 2008
The work is credited to Felix Gonzalez-Torres, but was actually built by curator Helen Molesworth. (Gonzalez-Torres died in 1996. (Boston Globe)
Artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres Dec 29, 2007
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Candy-filled art installation at Harvard is sweet but not sugarcoated Dec 13, 2007
Felix Gonzalez-Torres died in 1996, but 2007 has been a stellar year for him ... Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Untitled (Placebo - Landscape - for Roni), 1993. (Boston Globe)
GET THE PICTURE Dec 11, 2007
On the first floor, there's a rotating show from its permanent holdings - always try to find whatever's on show by conceptual heavyweight, the late Felix Gonzalez-Torres. (Trivia:He was America's Venice Biennale entrant this year. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Dream in peace Jul 4, 2007
Within a year, the first three artists, Jesse Amado (from San Antonio), Felix Gonzalez-Torres (from New York), and Annette Messager (from France), were installing their work at Artpace. The bold plan, inspired in part by the Dia Center for the Arts in New York and the Capp Street Center in San Francisco, was to support a series of artist residencies in San Antonio. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Biennale reflected on empires old and new Jun 18, 2007
The almost prerequisite America-critiquing begins this time with the American Pavilion, where the late Cuban-born American minimalist artist, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, is represented by a thick stack of posters, one reading "Memorial Day Weekend," endlessly taken away only to be constantly replenished in a never-ending cycle of loss. But, in general, the more righteous, vigorous brand of anti-war anger has seemingly evolved into elegy as in American artist Emily Prince's finely drawn portraits... (Toronto Star)
In Venice, sober art amid the spectacle Jun 17, 2007
The exhibition comes to a perplexing climax on the top floor of the Italian Pavilion where, after ascending a short flight of stairs, you pass through a gold-beaded curtain -- a work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres -- and enter a gallery occupied by what seems a motley assembly of works by various artists, including the German bad boy Martin Kippenberger and the Minimalist string sculptor Fred Sandback ... Coincidentally, the artist who was selected (not by Storr) to represent the United States in its... (Boston Globe)
Whose art is it anyway? Jun 11, 2007
America has prompted much comment by choosing to show a dead Cuban, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (who did work and die in New York, it must be said). Doherty, the twice Turner Prizenominated representative in the Northern Ireland pavilion, says he accepted the invitation partly because it was on behalf of the country where he was born and still lives. (Scotsman)
And it was all yellow Jun 8, 2007
With others - Yves Klein, Blinky Palermo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Piero Manzoni - there is somehow a sense of completion within what they did. Everything one might imagine is already present. (Guardian Unlimited)
Venice Biennale Jun 7, 2007
Librado Romero/ NYT Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" (America) ... VENICE: The artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died of AIDS in 1996 at the age of 38, did not exactly cut the figure of a secret agent, an infiltrator foiling lines of defense. (International Herald Tribune)
Middle-aged Brit Artist waves the flag in Venice Jun 7, 2007
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Has been dead for a decade, was Cuban-born, gay, and a ferocious, if optimistic, critic of his country - a far from straightforward choice to represent the US.. Sophie Calle The French artist has taken a letter from a lover dumping her and reworked it over and over again. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
The Art Capades May 16, 2007
Even if you don t know that it s a reference to a pre-War on Terror work by the artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, you ll catch the before-and-after irony. It s titled If you see something, say something, but we ll never see previously harmless things the same again: head scarves, duffel bags, federal buildings. (San Antonio Current, TX)
* Latino, American:both or neither? May 3, 2007
A billboard by the Cuban artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres at the Museo Alameda in San Antonio, Texas PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE. Last month, the 10-day Fiesta San Antonio opened, at which some 200,000 revelers took part in a parade. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Emin tops artistic bill in Venice May 2, 2007
This year the US pavilion is bound to arouse interest: in an extremely unusual move, the commissioner has decided not to field a living artist, but Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died a decade ago. Aside from the pavilions for individual nations, the Venice Biennale also includes a large, curated exhibition by an internationally respected figure, widely regarded as being the moment when the temperature of the international art world can be taken. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Albright to sell 200 antiquities Nov 11, 2006
"I'd like to see us purchase an Edward Hopper and get more representation of American moderns. That's an area that could be bolstered. And more recent figures - like Bruce Nauman and Felix Gonzalez-Torres for example - need to be represented.". The Sotheby's sales will begin on March 19, with Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, including a bronze wine vessel from the late Shang Dynasty. (Buffalo News)
* One night in Paris ]v Oct 19, 2006
Highlights included a Felix Gonzalez-Torres sculpture made out of sweets, which visitors helped themselves to, a Jacob's Ladder by Thierry Dreyfus suspended in the night sky at the national library and, rising out of the shadows in the Eglise Saint-Bernard, a glittering skull made out of kitchen utensils by India's Subodh Gupta. The event is one of several unusual happenings introduced by the city's go-getting left wing mayor Bertrand Delanoe in an effort to liven up the city's image X at a... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Read Indepth Article Aug 28, 2006
They call to mind Felix Gonzalez-Torres' famous dual clock, the tragically beautiful duo fated to burn out over time jointly yet in isolation; and they also recall Jorge Pardo's lamp installations that corrupt beautiful design by stirring downright emotive associations of "balls" - the male sexual organs. Thanks to the artist's subjective narration, a whole sea of cultural explanations, meanings, manifestations, obscurities and myths is cleverly exposed to new interpretations. (AbsoluteArts.com)
The lost world Jan 31, 2006
The pole dancer's podium might remind us of the squalor of the sex industry, but it is also a reference to the go-go dancing platform by the late Felix Gonzalez-Torres that was once installed at the Serpentine. The cleaning equipment might also make one think of Duane Hanson's lifelike waxwork janitors. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
