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Princeton University Art Museum announces Felix Gonzalez-Torres: “Untitled”

Princeton University Art Museum presents Felix Gonzalez-Torres: “Untitled” on view Monday, October 21, 2013 – Monday, December 16, 2013.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled,” 1991. Billboard. Installation view of Felix Gonzalez-Torres Billboard Project. Artpace Foundation, San Antonio, TX. Jan.–Dec. 2010. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation / Courtesy of Andrea Rosen / photo Tom DuBrock
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled,” 1991. Billboard. Installation view of Felix Gonzalez-Torres Billboard Project. Artpace Foundation, San Antonio, TX. Jan.–Dec. 2010. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation / Courtesy of Andrea Rosen / photo Tom DuBrock

The billboard is a vernacular format that the Cuban-born American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996) repurposed in an effort to engage diverse audiences and expand the public function of art. “I need the public to complete the work,” he stated, “to become part of my work, to join in.” This fall, the Museum will install one of Gonzalez-Torres’s billboards in locations around the greater Princeton area, including the plaza just outside its front door. Created at the height of the AIDS crisis, it features a haunting image of an empty bed, evoking the tensions and emotions between intimacy and publicity, loss and desire. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu