Felix Gonzalez-Torres
"Untitled" (Fortune Cookie Corner), 1990
Fortune cookies, endless supply
Overall dimensions vary with installation
Original installation: approximately 10,000 fortune cookies
Curated by Andrea Rosen
May 25—July 5, 2020
May 5, 2020 –– Andrea Rosen Gallery and David Zwirner are pleased to present a live exhibition of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled” (Fortune Cookie Corner) in various places throughout the world. This exhibition invites an international group of 1,000 people to each manifest the work as a “place” as part of one total “site” of this expansive exhibition. Invitees who choose to participate will be given a set of parameters specifically for this exhibition, thus establishing a fresh set of artistic interventions.
Participants will initiate the installation in their “place” with between 240 to 1,000 fortune cookies. In addition to this decision, each “place” will decide the location and configuration of the pile, beginning on May 25, 2020. Individuals must be permitted to take pieces from the work, and the participants will regenerate their piles (back to the amount with which they started) halfway through the presentation, on June 14. The exhibition will end on July 5, at which point any remaining fortune cookies will no longer be “the work.”
[Atkinson Gallery Director John Connelly, as one of the individuals who was invited, has selected the gallery as the "place" for manifesting the work with an initial pile of 500 cookies. From June 3rd to July 1st, each week 200 cookies are taken from the pile and offered to the community via the SBCC Food Pantry. Halfway through the exhibition the pile will be re-generated to 500 cookies.]
The exhibition recognizes this unique moment in history and reflects the ever-relevant and flexible nature of the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Like many of Gonzalez-Torres’s works, including his candy works and paper stacks, “Untitled” (Fortune Cookie Corner) addresses the capacity for immortality through regeneration, heightened by the experience of loss within these works. As Gonzalez-Torres was interested in his work providing an opportunity for questioning, some questions that may be broached by this work and this exhibition were provided to participants.
Much of Gonzalez-Torres’s work asks owners, curators, participants, and viewers alike to engage with his oeuvre beyond the confines of an institution or gallery space. Here, each participant is asked to document the manifestation of the work throughout the course of the six-week exhibition, which may include the installation process, the work’s context, interaction with the work, and how the work ebbs and flows. This exhibition also addresses notions of audience and accessibility, and our understanding of public and private space. Documentation of this physical exhibition, “Untitled” (Fortune Cookie Corner), will be viewable on both Andrea Rosen Gallery’s website, under Live Projects, and David Zwirner’s website beginning May 25, 2020.
The Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres is co-represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery and David Zwirner.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres was born in Guáimaro, Cuba on November 26, 1957. He referred to himself as American. He lived and worked in New York City between 1979 and 1995. Gonzalez-Torres died in Miami on January 6, 1996 from AIDS-related causes. He began his art studies at the University of Puerto Rico before moving to New York City, where he attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, first in 1981 and again in 1983. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute, New York, in 1983 and his MFA from the International Center of Photography and New York University in 1987.
To view more information on Gonzalez-Torres and a copy of the invitation to participants, including core tenets of the work and guidelines for its manifestation, visit the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation website https://www.felixgonzalez-torresfoundation.org
"Untitled" (Fortune Cookie Corner), 1990
Fortune cookies, endless supply
Overall dimensions vary with installation
Original installation: approximately 10,000 fortune cookies
Curated by Andrea Rosen
May 25—July 5, 2020
May 5, 2020 –– Andrea Rosen Gallery and David Zwirner are pleased to present a live exhibition of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled” (Fortune Cookie Corner) in various places throughout the world. This exhibition invites an international group of 1,000 people to each manifest the work as a “place” as part of one total “site” of this expansive exhibition. Invitees who choose to participate will be given a set of parameters specifically for this exhibition, thus establishing a fresh set of artistic interventions.
Participants will initiate the installation in their “place” with between 240 to 1,000 fortune cookies. In addition to this decision, each “place” will decide the location and configuration of the pile, beginning on May 25, 2020. Individuals must be permitted to take pieces from the work, and the participants will regenerate their piles (back to the amount with which they started) halfway through the presentation, on June 14. The exhibition will end on July 5, at which point any remaining fortune cookies will no longer be “the work.”
[Atkinson Gallery Director John Connelly, as one of the individuals who was invited, has selected the gallery as the "place" for manifesting the work with an initial pile of 500 cookies. From June 3rd to July 1st, each week 200 cookies are taken from the pile and offered to the community via the SBCC Food Pantry. Halfway through the exhibition the pile will be re-generated to 500 cookies.]
The exhibition recognizes this unique moment in history and reflects the ever-relevant and flexible nature of the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Like many of Gonzalez-Torres’s works, including his candy works and paper stacks, “Untitled” (Fortune Cookie Corner) addresses the capacity for immortality through regeneration, heightened by the experience of loss within these works. As Gonzalez-Torres was interested in his work providing an opportunity for questioning, some questions that may be broached by this work and this exhibition were provided to participants.
Much of Gonzalez-Torres’s work asks owners, curators, participants, and viewers alike to engage with his oeuvre beyond the confines of an institution or gallery space. Here, each participant is asked to document the manifestation of the work throughout the course of the six-week exhibition, which may include the installation process, the work’s context, interaction with the work, and how the work ebbs and flows. This exhibition also addresses notions of audience and accessibility, and our understanding of public and private space. Documentation of this physical exhibition, “Untitled” (Fortune Cookie Corner), will be viewable on both Andrea Rosen Gallery’s website, under Live Projects, and David Zwirner’s website beginning May 25, 2020.
The Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres is co-represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery and David Zwirner.
_____________
Felix Gonzalez-Torres was born in Guáimaro, Cuba on November 26, 1957. He referred to himself as American. He lived and worked in New York City between 1979 and 1995. Gonzalez-Torres died in Miami on January 6, 1996 from AIDS-related causes. He began his art studies at the University of Puerto Rico before moving to New York City, where he attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, first in 1981 and again in 1983. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute, New York, in 1983 and his MFA from the International Center of Photography and New York University in 1987.
To view more information on Gonzalez-Torres and a copy of the invitation to participants, including core tenets of the work and guidelines for its manifestation, visit the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation website https://www.felixgonzalez-torresfoundation.org
Food Pantry Drive Thru Food Distribution Summer 2020
When: Wednesdays from 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: West Campus Parking Lot 5-1
What: Free prepackaged bags of nonperishable foods and fresh produce
*While supplies last*
Important: Please practice safe social distancing for this event.
Vengan a la distribución de comida Verano 2020
Cuándo: 10 de Junio 2:30 pm a 4:00 pm
Dónde: Estacionamiento del Campo del Oeste (West Campus) Piso 5-1
Qué: Bolsas preempaquetadas de alimentos no perecederos
*Hasta que se acaben las bolsas*
Importante: Mantenga las reglas de distanciamiento social para este evento.
When: Wednesdays from 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: West Campus Parking Lot 5-1
What: Free prepackaged bags of nonperishable foods and fresh produce
*While supplies last*
Important: Please practice safe social distancing for this event.
- Only 1 household per car
- Walk up station available (for those with no access to a car)
- Please disinfect all items when you get home
Vengan a la distribución de comida Verano 2020
Cuándo: 10 de Junio 2:30 pm a 4:00 pm
Dónde: Estacionamiento del Campo del Oeste (West Campus) Piso 5-1
Qué: Bolsas preempaquetadas de alimentos no perecederos
*Hasta que se acaben las bolsas*
Importante: Mantenga las reglas de distanciamiento social para este evento.
- Solamente 1 familia por vehículo
- Si no tiene auto, puede venir en persona, pero mantenga 6 pies de distancia de los demás (pero si viene en auto, mantengase en su auto porfavor)
- Desinfecte todos los artículos cuando llegue a casa.