The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
"Untitled" (March 5th) #2
1991
Location: 229B Contemporary
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In accordance with the artist's wishes, when the lightbulbs in this work are extinguished, they must be replaced.Description
Cuban-born artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s sculptural installations are imbued with details of his life. On March 5, 1991, he lost his partner Ross Laycock to an AIDS-related death. In this work, Gonzales-Torres conjures a couple through a pair of gradually extinguishing lightbulbs, an artwork that quietly commemorates his partner’s passing and makes a larger reference to the AIDS epidemic. Gonzalez-Torres’s own premature death due to AIDS five years later adds an additional narrative dimension to the work: viewers bear witness to both artist and partners’ lives and losses through the two nestling bulbs hanging from entwined cords.- Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/3.2017