In 1990 Félix González-Torres encountered an artwork by Roni Horn called Gold Field (1980 82)
a simple sheet of gold foil placed on the floor of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
González-Torres was deeply moved and wrote to Horn beginning an exchange between the artists
that would last until González-Torres' passing in 1996. Félix González-Torres Roni Horn was
created as a photographic essay with the intention of sharing the experiential qualities of the
artists' work and the profound relationships underlying it. It explores four iconic works
(among others)-Untitled (For Stockholm) (1992) and Untitled (Blood) (1992) by González-Torres
and Well and Truly (2009-10) and a.k.a. (2008-09) by Horn-and emphasizes notions of doubling
duality repetition and identity. Images of these pieces taken on the occasion of a 2022
exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection in Paris reveal both artists' radical
visual vocabularies as well their shared passion for language writing and poetry. Their
intention emerges as two-fold: to create a tension between artist viewer and object and to
grasp the inexpressible the immeasurable.
