{"product_id":"15784-felix-gonzaleztorres","title":"Felix Gonzalez-Torres","description":"\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003cFONT face=TheSans-Plain\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eLove and memory, time and change, death and loss—like no other American artist of his generation Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996) linked the most private experiences with social and political themes, translating them into a reduced aesthetic vocabulary reminiscent of Minimal and Conceptual Art. Gonzalez-Torres, who died at the age of just 38, rejected the traditional notion of art as a work. In his famous \u003cSPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic\"\u003ecandy spills\u003c\/SPAN\u003e, for example, the sweets can be eaten by the viewer, and the piece, ultimately a metaphor for the transitoriness of the human being, gradually disappears.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eWe are very pleased to be able to offer a reprint of the catalogue that accompanied the artist’s major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1995. Nancy Spector reviews Gonzalez-Torres’s artistic career, taking a look at his work in the context of art production of the 1980s, while the individual chapters are devoted to central themes of his oeuvre.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\n\u003cP\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874858758408,"sku":"9783775719988","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775719988_de24f8ca-1561-4155-88d1-f186e3fa2a2b.jpg?v=1744063006","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/15784-felix-gonzaleztorres","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}