Published on the occasion of:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: inbetweenness
Judd Foundation, 101 Spring Street
October 22–December 18, 2021
Judd Foundation is pleased to present inbetweenness, an exhibition of works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, on the ground floor of 101 Spring Street in New York. The exhibition comprises “Untitled” (Loverboy) (1989) and “Untitled” (1991-1993), works that engage the distinctions between art and architecture, the public and the private, and specificity and indeterminacy.
Curated by Flavin Judd, the works were selected with consideration to how they would respond to the architecture of 101 Spring Street. “I am interested in the way Felix Gonzalez-Torres infused meaning into objects,” Judd notes. “The exhibition allows for the viewer to see how these two works deal with space: neither of them are on the floor; you are in them, and to some extent not walking around them but walking along them. The primary interest was in matching the works to the space and letting them both interact.”
The exhibition is accompanied by a newsprint publication edited by Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray that includes newly commissioned texts by Josh T Franco, Raquel Gutiérrez, Grant Leuning, Caitlin Murray, and Eileen Myles.
More info here.
an excerpt:
“Dear Felix,
I printed out a picture of you from the internet to meditate on as I struggle to write this letter. (Deciding this writing would be epistolary in the first place was itself a struggle.) Like any message to a person one never met and who died too soon, looking at a closeup of your face is a way of building a fantasy relationship. To some degree, imagining a relationship that can never be reciprocal describes the activity of every art historian and their chosen—or as in this case, proposed—subject. Yes, of course the artwork itself is the proposal, but let’s not pretend the desire to know the artist is not part of the equation. It turns out I have a lot to tell you, and it’s as uncomfortable as corresponding with a ghost should be.”