"Untitled" (Supreme Majority)

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

1991

Seven tall paper cones assembled as a sculptural installation by Felix Gonzalez-Torres that uses humble material to create a quiet, ceremonial marker of absence and communal loss.

Their flawless white surfaces and needlelike tips read like a fragile forest or a gathering of distant figures, the staggered heights and spacing setting up a rhythm of presence and emptiness that feels both orderly and mournful.

Typical of Gonzalez-Torres’s minimal, participatory practice, the work turns personal grief—especially in the context of the AIDS crisis—into austere public forms, expanding how sculpture can hold private memory and social meaning.

Palette

Exhibitions

Projects: Pier 18

1971

Prints by Sculptors

1975

Maps

1977

Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of The Museu...

1979