Artworks: Art Gallery Of Ontarios Permanent Collections

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The two works of art selected for this paper are “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A), 1991” by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and “Two Minutes of Spray Directly upon the Floor from a Standard Aerosol Spray Can, 1968” by Lawrence Weiner. Felix Gonzalez-Torres’, “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A), 1991, is multicolored candies, with an ideal weight of 175 pounds, and dimensions variable. The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation owns its copyrights. Lawrence Weiner’s, “Two Minutes of Spray Paint Directly upon the Floor from a Standard Aerosol Spray Can, 1968”, is a collection of Sol LeWitt, Sol LeWitt’s Hester Street Studio Floor in New York in the late 1960s. The work is a language and the materials referred to with dimensions variable. This paper describes the historical and formal significance of the artworks, why these works would enhance the Art Gallery of Ontario’s (AGO’s) permanent collections, and why the public would/should be interested in them.
Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled,” shown in Figure 1, is an allegorical piece of categorical simplicity and beauty, which transmutes one into insightful contemplation on love and loss. The artist’s partner, Ross Laycock passed on in 19...