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May 21, 2018
"Untitled" (March 5th) #2
"Untitled" (March 5th) #2
1991
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
(American, 1957–1996)
Light bulbs, porcelain light sockets, and extension cords
Scott Mueller Collection 3.2017
© The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation
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In accordance with the artist's wishes, when the lightbulbs in this work are extinguished, they must be replaced.
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Cuban-born artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s sculptural installations are imbued with details of his life. On March 5, 1991, he lost his partner Ross Laycock to an AIDS-related death. In this work, Gonzales-Torres conjures a couple through a pair of gradually extinguishing lightbulbs, an artwork that quietly commemorates his partner’s passing and makes a larger reference to the AIDS epidemic. Gonzalez-Torres’s own premature death due to AIDS five years later adds an additional narrative dimension to the work: viewers bear witness to both artist and partners’ lives and losses through the two nestling bulbs hanging from entwined cords.
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