Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Galerie Peter Pakesch
Behind a glass wall that divided the public gallery space from the office, a video played. A series of facts appeared on a blue background; no dates or names offered clues to the real context, but together they hinted at a specific meaning. This piece, Untitled (Self-Portrait), 1991, a work in progress, was simultaneously biography, autobiography, and history. Also behind this glass wall hung a photograph of the grave of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas encircled by a bed of flowers, entitled Untitled (Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein Grave, Paris), 1992.
In contrast to the intimacy of this