Félix González-Torres, Roni Horn / with Julie Ault.

Göttingen : Steidl, [2022]
©2022

77 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

This exhibition highlights the principles of duplication, duality, complexity in repetition and identity at work in the respective practices of the artists Félix González-Torres and Roni Horn. It retraces the artistic conversation that began between them in 1991 and continued until González-Torres's death in 1996.
In 1990 Félix González-Torres encountered an artwork by Roni Horn called Gold Field (1980/82), a simple sheet of gold foil placed on the floor of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. González-Torres was deeply moved and wrote to Horn, beginning an exchange between the artists that would last until González-Torres' passing in 1996. 'Félix González-Torres Roni Horn' was created as a photographic essay with the intention of sharing the experiential qualities of the artists' work and the profound relationships underlying it. It explores four iconic works (among others) - Untitled (For Stockholm) (1992) and Untitled (Blood) (1992) by González-Torres, and Well and Truly (2009-10) and a.k.a. (2008-09) by Horn - and emphasizes notions of doubling, duality, repetition, and identity. Images of these pieces, taken on the occasion of a 2022 exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection in Paris, reveal both artists' radical visual vocabularies, as well their shared passion for language, writing and poetry. Their intention emerges as two-fold: to create a tension between artist, viewer and object; and to grasp the inexpressible, the immeasurable.

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González-Torres, Félix, 1957-1996 Exhibitions.
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Ault, Julie, writer of added commentary.
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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 318992
Cote: 318992
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Statut: Disponible