Creative Time Presents Felix Gonzalez-Torres. [Original Announcement Card]
New York: Creative Time, 2000. Original color photo-illustrated folding three-panel announcement card (measures 4" x 9" closed).
Folding announcement card for public art organziation Creative Time's posthumous presentation of Cuban-born New York installation artist and AIDS activist Gonzalez-Torres’s untitled billboard (1995). One of the artist’s final works before his death from AIDS-related complications in 1996, the billboard consisted of a black-and-white photo of a solitary bird in flight, reproduced on two dozen billboards throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Presented along thoroughfares and commercial corridors, the citywide installation coincided with an exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery featuring the billboard alongside "Untitled (Key West Weekend)" (1989), an early photographic puzzle similarly depicting a bird in flight. Fine. Item #13677
$45.00