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Selected Correspondence Letters from Félix González-Torres (1992)

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SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE FROM FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES

February 14, 1992

Dear Andrea:

The other day I was still thinking about this piece and how it fulfills me now even more. You know, the title: “(Passport)” is very crucial and significant—a white empty blank uninscribed piece of paper, an untouched feeling, an undiscovered experience. A passport to another place, to another life, to a new beginning, to chance; to the chance of meeting that other who makes life a moving force, a chance to alter one’s life and future, an empty passport for life: to inscribe it with the best, the most painful, the most banal, the most sublime, and yet to inscribe it with life, love, memories, fears, voids, and unexpected reasons for being. A simple white object against a white wall, waiting.
As always, yours

Félix

Félix González-Torres – Bio

tania — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:48:35 +0000

Félix González-Torres was born in Cuba in 1957. He graduated with a BFA from Pratt Institute of Art and an MFA from New York University and the International Center of Photography. He has exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, and the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City. He passed away in 1996. The Félix González-Torres Foundation was created in 2002 “to foster an appreciation for the work of Félix González-Torres among the general public, scholars, and art historians.” His work is represented by the Andrea Rosen Gallery.

Excerpted from “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, published by steidldangin in 2006.

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