No/Bodies: Tattoos and the Work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Join us for a panel exploring the relationship audiences have with Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work through tattooing. Co-curators Charlotte Ickes and Josh T Franco will be in conversation with four people who have chosen to express their appreciation for Gonzalez-Torres and his work by getting tattoos: art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson, writer Alicia Inez Guzman, curator Meg Onli, and Gonzalez-Torres’s nephew Mario Gonzalez. We look forward to a fantastic conversation about art, the body, memory and the unexpected.

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Image Credit:

Candies in variously colored wrappers, endless supply

Overall dimensions vary with installation

Ideal weight: 175 lb.

© Estate Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Courtesy Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation

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