BOOK:Felix Gonzalez-Torres,David Zwirner Books

One of the most significant artists to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s reduced formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor, and evocative use of everyday materials resonates with meaning that is at once specific and mutable, rigorous and generous, poetic and political. Despite the resolute abstraction of much of his work, Gonzalez-Torres worked with familiar materials, from his iconic candy spill works and his evocative light string pieces, to his work with mirrors, clocks, and curtains. His art activates the architecture of the various spaces, the physicality of the viewer, the past and present, continuously maintaining its relevance. Featuring several key bodies of work from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s career, this publication guides readers through a series of distinct installations from the 2017 exhibition at David Zwirner New York (27/4-14/7/17). Opening with details of the exhibition and images of visitors in the spaces, the publication walks the reader through each piece. New text by David Breslin explores the variety of works included here while contextualizing Gonzalez-Torres’s contribution to art history. -Dimitris Lempesis