Untitled (March 5th) #2
- Creator
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres
- Date
- 1991
- Collection
- Item Archive
- Description
- The art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres imbues humble, everyday things, such as the most basic of light fixtures, with an unexpected emotional charge. The date in the title of this piece is the birthday of the artist’s partner, Ross Laycock, who died of AIDS in 1994. This piece was created shortly after Ross’s diagnosis. Hanging against the wall, the installation might look naked and vulnerable, or poignant and warm. The implicit romanticism of the work’s metaphor of two luminous, connected bodies—evoking those of Gonzalez-Torres and Laycock—is tempered by the knowledge that at any second one of the bulbs could burn out, with the other left to shine on alone. --University of Michigan Museum of Art
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