Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form. Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, 16 January– 25 April, 2010, Brussels
The Cuban-born American artist Félix González-Torres, who died of AIDS in 1996, is one of the icons of the contemporary art scene, routinely referred to as „the most influential artist of his generation". The travelling retrospective - whose first stop is the Wiels Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels - holds promise to become one of this year's most significant events in the European art life. The show comprises both popular and less known works - paintings, photographs, sculptures, public space projects - thus aiming for an exhaustive overview of this brilliant yet lamentably brief artistic career (González-Torres passed away aged 38). In all, the retrospective will be on view in three different venues, from Brussels travelling on to Fondation Beyeler in Basel and the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, in six different versions. The perpetually changing image of the exhibition, which might initially seem confusing to the public, means that the opening day does not unveil a finished article: at half-point, an invited artist (in Brussels, it's the Vietnamese-born Denmark-based Danh Vo) is taking over to rearrange it, adding new works and offering a new vision which might differ significantly from the original version. The concept of „perpetual change", the brainchild of the curator Elena Filipovic, is, in a way, an illustration to Félix González-Torres' way of thinking and artistic expression.
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Keywords: Brussels, exhibition
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