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31/5/2000

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Serpentine Gallery, London

Cuban-born American Felix Gonzalez-Torres is widely recognised as being one of the most important conceptual artists of the late twentieth century. Born in 1957, he moved in 1979 to New York, where he lived and worked until his death in 1996. This will be his first major exhibition in Britain and will include examples of his work in sculpture, installation, photography, video, performance and public art.

Gonzalez-Torres is particularly known for the participatory nature of his work. Using a variety of materials, including sweets, light bulbs, paper, jigsaws and offset prints, his work is concerned with private and collective histories, individual and cultural identity and the themes of memory, travel, time, generosity, exchange, authority, love, loss and desire.

An important part of the exhibition will be the use of satellite sites, including the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and the London Underground, as well as twelve billboards across London, paying tribute to the artist's original spirit of inviting viewers to discover his art in spaces outside the art gallery.

The Serpentine Gallery, situated in the heart of Kensington Gardens in a 1934 tea pavilion, was founded in 1970 by the Arts Council of England. Today the Gallery attracts over 400,000 visitors a year and is one of London's most loved exhibition sites for modern and contemporary art

The Serpentine is open daily from 10am to 6pm and is free of charge.

Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens London W2 3XA.

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