Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Roni Horn. Bilingual exhibition catalog in French and English.
Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection and Dilecta editions| N° d'inventaire | 25677 |
| Format | 22.5 x 28.5 |
| Détails | 176 p., illustrated, bound. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782373721492 |
Catalogue of the exhibition "Felix Gonzalez-Torres—Roni Horn". The exhibition proposed at the Bourse de Commerce is first and foremost a dream, that of being able to present two artists whose work and commitment have meant so much to their peers. In the continuity of their deep friendship and based on emblematic works preserved by the Pinault Collection, the exhibition brings the works of each into dialogue, as if their discussion continues to exist in the present.
Continuing a creative exchange between the two artists, nourished for several years and abruptly suspended by the death of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, the exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce is made possible thanks to the involvement of Roni Horn, with the complicity of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Between installations, photographs and sculptures, the dialogue between the two artists continues through a series of works of fragile beauty and extreme emotional power, all in mirrors and light, with the conviction that "the act of looking at each of these objects is transfigured by gender, race, social class and sexuality" (Felix Gonzalez-Torres). At the heart of their work, and in this exhibition in particular, it is therefore a question of capturing the "intermediate" character of existence, the in-between dimension, caught in this tension between fragile presence and irreducible disappearance. The dialogue between the works of Roni Horn and Felix Gonzalez-Torres is rooted in the balance between these two polarities, between life and death, between the public and the private, the personal and the social, "between the fear of loss and the joy of loving, of growing, of changing, of becoming ever more..." (Felix Gonzalez-Torres interviewed by Tim Rollins, in Felix Gonzalez-Torres, New York, ART Press, 1993).
Catalogue of the exhibition "Felix Gonzalez-Torres—Roni Horn". The exhibition proposed at the Bourse de Commerce is first and foremost a dream, that of being able to present two artists whose work and commitment have meant so much to their peers. In the continuity of their deep friendship and based on emblematic works preserved by the Pinault Collection, the exhibition brings the works of each into dialogue, as if their discussion continues to exist in the present.
Continuing a creative exchange between the two artists, nourished for several years and abruptly suspended by the death of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, the exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce is made possible thanks to the involvement of Roni Horn, with the complicity of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Between installations, photographs and sculptures, the dialogue between the two artists continues through a series of works of fragile beauty and extreme emotional power, all in mirrors and light, with the conviction that "the act of looking at each of these objects is transfigured by gender, race, social class and sexuality" (Felix Gonzalez-Torres). At the heart of their work, and in this exhibition in particular, it is therefore a question of capturing the "intermediate" character of existence, the in-between dimension, caught in this tension between fragile presence and irreducible disappearance. The dialogue between the works of Roni Horn and Felix Gonzalez-Torres is rooted in the balance between these two polarities, between life and death, between the public and the private, the personal and the social, "between the fear of loss and the joy of loving, of growing, of changing, of becoming ever more..." (Felix Gonzalez-Torres interviewed by Tim Rollins, in Felix Gonzalez-Torres, New York, ART Press, 1993).