Bittersøtt
Bittersøtt fri tolkning av Gonzaelz- Torres "Placebo" Akryl og sukker på lerret med ett drops fra Placebo 40x40 cm Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Placebo), 1991. This monumental installation, on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, features a single sculpture comprised of 1200 pounds – nearly 40,000 pieces – of silver-wrapped hard candy. This exhibition is being presented in observance of World AIDS Day, December 1, and continues a 16-year tradition at the museum. A gallery talk will be held on Saturday, December 1 at 4:30 pm with Williams Professor C. Ondine Chavoya and visiting scholar Jonathan Katz on the sociopolitical background of Gonzalez-Torres’s work. This is a free public event and all are invited to attend. One of Gonzalez-Torres’s “candy spills,” “Untitled” (Placebo), 1991, consists of 1,200 pounds of silver-wrapped hard candy arranged as a stunning carpet on the floor of the museum’s largest gallery. Visitors