Felix Guarza Restores: Sweet Revenge

About the Exhibition

This is a large-scale exhibition addressing the emotional and political artistic practice of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Titled 'Sweet Revenge,' the exhibition uses the contradiction and contrast that frequently appear in his art as a lens for understanding his body of work. It is his first large-scale exhibition in Madrid, Spain, connected to the historical background of his having to leave Madrid as a child and his artistic identity. The exhibition includes signature works such as Untitled (Revenge) (a pile of blue candy that diminishes itself), presented after he first returned to Madrid in 1991, and shows his artistic approach through spilling candy, stacks of paper, curtains, light boards, and strings of lights. The exhibition emphasizes how he conveyed both personal emotion and political message through art during the AIDS crisis, showing that his art built an artistic language in which emotion and political tension coexist. The exhibition emphasizes that his art functioned as a medium conveying both emotional resonance and political urgency at once.