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This pile of foil-wrapped candy by late artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres pays homage to a sheet of gold – an artwork by Roni Horn that gave Gonzalez-Torres and his dying partner hope.\u00a0 Intended to be taken by individual visitors, Gonzalez-Torres\u2019 free sweets are a gesture of generosity and an expression both of pleasure and of loss as the pile of candies gradually dwindles.\u00a0 Similarly, his \u2018Untitled\u2019 (Fortune Cookie Corner) from 1990 offers participants a positive message in the form of a fortune cookie, piles of which are currently installed<\/a> from Buenos Aires to Beijing in hundreds of places, from parks to public kitchens, outside of museums and stores and in private homes.\u00a0 Initiated by Andrea Rosen Gallery<\/a> & David Zwirner Gallery<\/a>, the New York Times suggests that the project \u201caddresses the grief of today\u2019s pandemic \u2013 just as it did the AIDS crisis.\u201d\u00a0 (On view through July 5th<\/sup>.)<\/p>\n

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, installation view of \u201cUntitled\u201d (Placebo-Landscape \u2013 for Roni), candies individually wrapped in gold cellophane, endless supply, overall dimensions vary with installation, ideal weight: 1,200 lbs, Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, 1993.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This pile of foil-wrapped candy by late artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres pays homage to a sheet of gold – an artwork by Roni Horn that gave Gonzalez-Torres and his dying partner hope.\u00a0 Intended to be taken by individual visitors, Gonzalez-Torres\u2019 free sweets are a gesture of generosity and an expression both of pleasure and of loss … <\/p>\n

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