perfect lovers - one art instalation by Felix Gonzalez Torres

in instalation •  7 years ago 

On Friday nights I get more romantic than usual.

One of the more touching works of the artist Felix Gonzalez Torres describes almost exactly the relationship of a pair of lovers is: Untitled (Perfect Lovers) (1987-1990)

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in this instlathin he presents two clocks placed next to each other and ticking together. In the manner of objects, and people, as time goes by, the gups would get wider. One will precede the other, and they would grow out from synchronization. Maybe one will break, maybe both, and sometime, one of them will stop ticking. The second will continue until he stops.

Gonzalez Torres (1957-1996) is one of the conceptual artists who influence the art of the 1990s,

was known for his minimal installations and sculptures in which he used materials such as strings of lightbulbs, clocks, stacks of paper, or packaged hard candies

Guznels Torres, one of the most influential conceptual artists influencing the art of the 1990s, has been known for creating non-monumental objects, specific everyday objects that are designed for a different setting each time.

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