Releasing Space:

Relational Aesthetics and The Making of an Artist Removed from the Work

By

Vaughn Whitney Garland

Dr Eric GarbersonRepresenting the Artist

MATX Seminar May 12, 2011

Felix Gonzalez-Torres "Untitled“ 1992/1993 print | offset print on paper

8 in. x 44 1/2 in. x 33 1/2 in. Acquired 1994 Collection SFMOMA

Felix Gonzalez-Torres "Untitled“

1992/1993 print | offset print on paper 8 in. x 44 1/2 in. x 33 1/2 in.

Acquired 1994 Collection SFMOMA

Felix Gonzalez-Torres"Untitled“

1991"Projects 34: Felix Gonzalez-Torres"

May 16 - June 30, 1992, in 24 locations throughout New York CityNew York City Billboard

Image courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery

Rikrit Tiravanija’s Untitled Thai Food Dinner303 Gallery New York NY1992

Rirkrit Tiravanija“Untitled”

Gallery Installation 303 Gallery New York NY

1992

Refrigerator, table, chairs, wood, drywall, food, and miscellaneous garbage.

Tiravanija took the contents of the entire gallery – kitchen, storeroom, bathroom and office

– and publicly deposited/displayed them in the main gallery space. In what had been the gallery office, he set up a provisional

kitchen where Thai curry was cooked and served to visitors.

Maurizio Cattelan“The Wrong Gallery”With sound piece by Christoph Buechel and Sonja Feldmeier

Artist opened a New York gallery that can’t be entered

Corin Hewitt“Seed Stage”3 October 2008 – 4 January 2009Whitney Museum of American Art NYC