Félix Gonzalez-Torres

From May 25, 2020 to July 5, 2020, the Consortium Museum will participate in the international exhibition of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s artwork Untitled (Fortune Cookie Corner), 1990, initiated by Andrea Rosen and David Zwirner who jointly represent the artist’s estate. 

On this occasion, the galleries have invited a thousand people scattered around the globe, selected for their links with Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work, to install the piece in a location of their own choosing, whether it is an art institution or a more unconventional place. The “site” for this exhibition is made of all the places where the artwork will be shown, thus extending the site to a global scale so as to make the artwork accessible to as many visitors as possible, in a physical or virtual manner. This will be the largest Felix Gonzalez-Torres exhibition to date. According to the instigators of the project, “in choosing to participate, one becomes a facilitator, a part of the total ‘site,’ a viewer, an audience member, the public...”

Eric Troncy, director of the Consortium Museum since 1995, was a friend of the artist, whom he exhibited in the No Man’s Time exhibition at the Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Nice. He also curated a solo exhibition of his work at the Consortium in 2001. Invited to be part of this project, Eric Troncy has decided to present the artwork on the top floor of the Consortium Museum. Untitled (Fortune Cookie Corner) is an “infinite” artwork made with a heap of fortune cookies. To fabricate the piece, a thousand cookies are piled up in a corner of the exhibition space. In the course of the exhibition, visitors may pick up one or several fortune cookies to consume or take home with them. Visitors face their own responsibility when removing an element of the artwork for their own pleasure, or if their ambition is to own a relic of the piece; by doing so they actively participate in the artwork’s destruction or vanishing.