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Description: 1957-1996
UNTITLED (VENEZIA)

7 1/2 by 9 1/2 in. 19 by 24.2 cm.

signed, titled and dated 1988 on the plastic bag

chromogenic print jigsaw puzzle and plastic bag

Executed in 1988, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.

PROVENANCE

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Phoebe Chason Collection
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
Acquired by the present owner from the above

EXHIBITED

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, March - May 1995
Tokyo, Wako Works of Art, American Contemporary Prints, July - August 1996

LITERATURE

A.R.T. Press, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Los Angeles, 1993, p. 43, illustrated
Dietmar Elger, Felix Gonzalez-Torres Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997, no. 33, p. 29, illustrated

NOTE

Brecht says to keep a distance to allow the viewer, the public, time to reflect and think. When you get out of the theater you should not have had a catharsis, you should have had a thinking experience. More than anything, break the pleasure of representation, the pleasure of the flawless narrative. This is not life, this is just a theater piece. I like that a lot: This is not life, this is just an artwork. I want you, the viewer, to be intellectually challenged, moved, and informed

Felix González-Torres