Felix Gonzalez-Torres
"Untitled"
Most of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's stacks of paper are designed to be depleted; viewers can take away one of the printed broadsheets that bear photographic images or oblique texts. Though reminiscent of minimal forms, these works initiate a dynamic interaction with the public. "Untitled" (1991), however, structures this interaction in a more subtle reflective way. The work is a unique stack of 161 signed and numbered silkscreens that remain together. Originally presented in the from of 1989 billboard commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, its iteration as a stack of prints was meant, as the artist noted at the time, as a "more private and personal object" - one that is not disseminated physically but instead through the experience of remembering. The stark black page and white typeface on each sheet trace a nonlinear chonology of significant events in history.
