Important Resources

In addition to the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation’s main priority of fostering and facilitating individuals’ direct experiences with the work, which follows Gonzalez-Torres’s primary intention, a significant Foundation activity is providing language around the nature and structure of the works, in accordance with the type and forms of language that Gonzalez-Torres developed and has been provided to owners and exhibitors on an ongoing basis. The Foundation has developed a format to provide access to such language, referred to as 'Core Tenets,' for those works/bodies of works that have specific, yet sometimes open-ended parameters.

While the Core Tenets are inherently documents that may shift over time, at present, they are in process and reflect the Foundation’s ongoing research activities. Current in-process Core Tenets documents for portrait works, candy works, and billboards are shared here to provide further information on the works in this exhibition.

The Core Tenets, for the below works and others, will continue to be updated on the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation’s website  as research progresses and language develops.*

Core Tenets for Billboards (In-process)

Core Tenets for Candy Works (In-process)

Core Tenets for Portrait Works (In-process)

*If the Core Tenets are cited, the Foundation requests that the citation describe the language as part of an in-process, ongoing, or developing language project. As in: “An in-process document shared on the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation’s website describes the core tenets of the work as…”