Ep. 68 - Felix Gonzalez-Torres' "Untitled (March 5th) #2" (1991)
The Lonely Palette

Ep. 68 - Felix Gonzalez-Torres' "Untitled (March 5th) #2" (1991)

B2Upper-intermediateFebruary 21, 202531 min

"The only thing permanent is change." - Felix Gonzalez-Torres There is no way around it. The work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a gay, Cuban-American artist who responded to - and died during - the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s, is sad. His work is a memorial, both to a lost generation and to his own partner, Ross. Yet it is through these seemingly banal, industrial, or every day materials, and the powerful metaphor that they represent, that we can best get to the root of what loss can mean. And, maybe, healing as well. ...

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This is the Lonely Pallet, the podcast that returns art history to the masses one object at a time. I'm Tamaravi Shai. It's a pair of light bulbs.

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They're hanging against a white wall. Incandescent light bulbs, they're glowing warm yellow. They're on individual cables that sort of, they hang from, there's a nail, I think. The cables sort of fall looping around each other

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in that way that Christmas lights do when you leave men of ox too long. When they hit the floor there's a coil or a knot or something where the excess length is taken up before they both plug into the wall. It's hard to see from where I am, but I think they both plug into the same socket.

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