A photographic homage to the conceptual and formal sympathies between
two artist friends
In 1990 Félix González-Torres (1957-96) encountered an artwork by Roni
Horn (born 1955) called Gold Field (1980/82), a sheet of gold foil
placed on the floor of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
González-Torres was deeply moved and wrote to Horn, beginning an
exchange that would last until González-Torres' death. Félix
González-Torres Roni Horn is a photographic essay sharing the
experiential qualities of the artists' work and the profound
relationships underlying it. It explores four iconic works (among
others)--"Untitled" (For Stockholm) (1992) and "Untitled" (Blood)
(1992) by González-Torres, and Well and Truly (2009-10) and a.k.a.
(2008-09) by Horn--emphasizing notions of doubling, duality, repetition
and identity. Images of these pieces, taken on the occasion of a 2022
exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection in Paris, reveal
both artists' radical visual vocabularies and their shared passion for
language and poetry.