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Félix González-Torres Torres ”THE CLOCK”
(November 26, 1957 – January 9, 1996) was a Cuban-born American visual artist. He lived and worked primarily in New York City between 1979 and 1995 after attending university in Puerto Rico. González-Torres’s practice incorporates a minimalist visual vocabulary and certain artworks that are composed of everyday materials such as strings of light bulbs, paired wall clocks, stacks of paper, and individually wrapped candies. González-Torres is known for having made significant contributions to the field of conceptual art in the 1980s and 1990s. His practice continues to influence and be influenced by present-day cultural discourses. González-Torres died in Miami in 1996 from AIDS-related illness.
González-Torres Untitled (Perfect Lovers) (1991)—where two matching clocks tick side-by-side on a wall—could be interpreted as a simple but deeply touching gesture of the synchronicity in a partnership, where two hearts beat (or tick) as one. It could also be interpreted as the borrowed time of a shared life; as the clocks’ batteries run out perhaps the clocks will slow, jump out of sync or one will simply stop, leaving the other alone in its rhythm. In these two clocks, the artist cuttingly encapsulates the materiality of the body and the soft humanity of objects
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