Felix Gonzalez-Torres Always to Return /anglais - Couverture rigide

Gonzalez-torres, Feli

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798890181107

Editeur : Radius Books, 2025

Synopsis

Always to Return examines Felix Gonzalez-Torres's work in relation to portraiture and accompanies a major exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

This expansive project focuses on Felix Gonzalez-Torres's deep engagement with portraiture and the construction of identity, as well as how history is told and inherited. As one of the leading artists of the twentieth century, Gonzalez-Torres broadened the horizon of portraiture from a genre associated with static representations of individuals to one with the capacity to change, remain resonant, and encourage collaboration. With no formal beginning or end point, the exhibition and monograph unfold at the intersection of Gonzalez-Torres's groundbreaking work, the context of two Smithsonian collections, and the historically significant setting of Washington, D.C.

Always to Return weaves together documentation of the exhibition with new scholarship by the exhibition's curators, Josh T Franco and Charlotte Ickes, essays by Julie Ault, and Joshua Chambers-Letson, and archival texts that shape the conceptual foundation for the exhibition. This in-depth look at the artist's relationship to portraiture and historiography provides a new way into the practice of one the most significant artists of our time.

The work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres can be found in numerous public collections worldwide, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Cleveland Museum of Art; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Dallas Museum of Art; Glenstone Museum, Potomac; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Always to Return is co-published with the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Teresita Fernández's work is characterized by an expansive rethinking of what constitutes landscape: from the subterranean to the cosmic, from national borders, to the more elusive psychic landscapes we carry within. Fernández unravels the intimacies between matter, human beings, and locations, and her luminous work poetically challenges ideas about land and landscape by exposing the history of colonization and the inherent violence embedded in how we imagine and define place, and, by extension, one another. Questions of power, visibility, and erasure are important tenets of Fernández's work, and she confronts these themes in subtle ways, insisting on intertwining beauty, the socio-political, the intimate, and the immense. Imbuing the landscape with an anthropomorphic sensibility, Fernández has said "You look at the landscape, but the landscape also looks back at you; landscape is more about what you don't see than what you do see."

Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; New Britain Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Phoenix Art Museum; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Harvard University, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Des Moines Art Center; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Smithsonian Museum of American Art; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, among others. Fernández has also created numerous large-scale public sculptures, including at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; New Orleans Museum of Art; Ford Foundation, New York; and Madison Square Park. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Félix González-Torres (1957–1996) was one of the most significant artists to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In its reduced formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor, and evocative use of everyday materials, the artist’s work resonates with meaning that is at once specific and mutable, rigorous and generous, poetic and political.

González-Torres was born in Guáimaro, Cuba and referred to himself as American. He began his art studies at the University of Puerto Rico before moving to New York City, where he attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, in 1981 and 1983. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1983 and his MFA from the International Center of Photography and New York University in 1987. He lived and worked in New York City from 1979-1995. González-Torres died in Miami on January 9, 1996 from AIDS-related causes. The artist’s work has been shown around the world in galleries and museums, and is held in numerous public and private collcetions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Radius Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798890181107
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible