I don't really see it that way. I think more than anything else I'm just an extension of certain practices, minimalism or conceptualism, that I am developing areas I think were not totally dealt with. I don't like this idea of having to undermine your ancestors, of ridiculing them, undermining them, and making less out of them. I think we're part of a historical process and I think that this attitude that you have to murder your father in order to start something new is bullshit. We are part of this culture, we don't come from outer space, so whatever I do is already something that has entered my brain from some other sources and is then synthesized into something new. I respect my elders and I learn from them. There's nothing wrong
with accepting that. I'm secure enough to accept those influences. I don't have anxiety about originality, I really don't.
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixInterv.html
There's a great quote by the director of the Christian Coalition, who said that he wanted to be a spy. "I want to be invisible," he said, "I do guerrilla warfare, I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know until election night." This is good! This is brilliant! Here the Left we should stop wearing the fucked-up T-shirts that say "Vegetarian Now." No, go to a meeting and infiltrate and then once you are inside, try to have an effect. I want to be a spy, too. I do want to be the one who resembles something else. We should have been thinking about that long ago. We have to restructure our strategies and realize that the red banner with the red raised fist didn't work in the sixties and it's not going to work now. I don't want to be the enemy anymore. The enemy is too easy to dismiss and to attack. The thing that I want to do sometimes with some of these pieces about homosexual desire is to be more inclusive. Every time they see a clock or a stack of paper or a curtain, I want them to think twice. I want them to be like the protagonist in Repulsion by Polanski where everything becomes a threat to her virginity. Everything has a sexual mission, the walls, the pavement, everything.
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixInterv.html
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixGallery.html
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/felix-gonzalez-torres/#
http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/felix-gonzalez-torres-portrait-of-ross/
Es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit:
http://www.vvork.com/?p=21905
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/felix-gonzalez-torres/images
https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/felix-gonzalez-torres-portrait-of-ross/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Gonz%C3%A1lez-Torres
