Artforum, July 1st, 2007
My Felix GLENN LIGON ON FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES. EDITED BY JULIE AULT. NEW YORK: STEIDLDANGIN, 2006. 410 PAGES. $85.
IN 1996, the year Felix Gonzalez-Torres died, I made a version of his "Unfilled" (Perfect Lovers), 1987-90, by hanging two identical battery-operated clocks side by side on my living-room wall. I had always admired his work, and, like friends who had foil-wrapped candies sitting on their bookshelves or a sheet of paper from one his stacks pinned to their walls, I too wanted to live with a Felix. A decade later, I still have my Felix. It's hanging in my studi...
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