VIDEO:Felix Gonzalez-Torres | Program, David Zwirner Gallery

From January 12 to February 25, 2023 David Zwirner presented an exhibition of works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The exhibition featured four major installations, two of which have never been realized in the manner envisioned by Gonzalez-Torres before his untimely death in 1996 from complications related to AIDS. As this exhibition delves deeply into the nature of the portrait works, David Zwirner will also present a new edition of its celebrated Program video series, hosted by Helen Molesworth, in which the three individuals who authored the distinct versions of “Untitled (Portrait of the Magoons)” was interviewed.Through a special and intentional selection of works and the distinctive format in which they will be presented, this exhibition will afford new and reconceived approaches to understanding and experiencing Gonzalez-Torres’s art. In particular, the two large-scale works that have never previously been seen as they were originally intended by the artist will shed light on the evolution of key motifs and conceptual throughlines that animated Gonzalez-Torres’s practice; altogether, the exhibition underscores the constantly shifting methodologies Gonzalez-Torres utilized in order to inspire an engagement with the ways that change and questioning foster meaning.

 

 

Inside the making of and meaning behind Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s portrait works through conversations with artists Glenn Ligon and Coco Fusco, and longtime Gonzalez-Torres collector Nancy Magoon