nyctaeus:Candy Spill pieces by Felix Gonzalez-TorresGonzalez-Torres made 19 of these works during hi
nyctaeus:Candy Spill pieces by Felix Gonzalez-TorresGonzalez-Torres made 19 of these works during his short career. 6 of these he considered portraits. The works typically took the form of piles of small individually wrapped sweets, accumulated to add up to a specific weight determined by the artist. It is specified that the candy, if possible, should be Fruit Flashers. Often, the weights of the piles corresponded with the weights of the people they depicted (such as ‘Portrait of Ross in LA’ from 1991; the pile weighs the same that Torres’s lover, Ross Laycock, weighed just after his diagnosis with AIDS). Torres also took care to select various colours of cellophane wrapping to achieve various effects. Visitors are encouraged to take the sweets, eventually deplensihing the spills over time.1 - ‘Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA)’, 19912- ‘Untitled (Portrait of Dad)’, 19913 - ‘Untitled (USA Today)’, 19904 - ‘Untitled (Corner of Baci)’, 19905 - ‘Untitled (Lover Boys)’, 19916 - ‘Untitled (Public Opinion)’, 19917 - ‘Untitled (Portrait of Marcel Brient)’, 19928 - ‘Untitled (Fortune Cookie Corner)’, 1990[image description: various photos of the pieces described above, piles of individually wrapped candies] -- source link
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