"Untitled" (Supreme Majority)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
American, born Cuba. 1957–1996
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.
Medium
Paper, seven parts
Dimensions
Dimensions vary with installation
Overall approximately 61 x 86 x 36" (154.9 x 218.5 x 91.4 cm)
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Credit
Gift of Werner and Elaine Dannheisser
Accession
179.1996.a-g
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