Christopher Wool
& Félix González-Torres
offset-lithograph poster on paper
142 x 94 cm.
Published in an unnumbered edition from 1993 onwards
Provenance: Galerie Max Hessler, Berlin.
& Félix González-Torres
offset-lithograph poster on paper
142 x 94 cm.
Published in an unnumbered edition from 1993 onwards
Provenance: Galerie Max Hessler, Berlin.
& Félix González-Torres
offset-lithograph poster on paper
142 x 94 cm.
Published in an unnumbered edition from 1993 onwards
Provenance: Galerie Max Hessler, Berlin.
Christopher Wool and Félix González-Torres collaborated on this exhibition poster for a show at Printed Matter in New York in 1993, printing enough posters to stack them exactly 8 inches in height from the ground. The stack grew shorter as visitors were invited to take a poster home, reflecting the themes of mortality and temporality that are key in the works of González-Torres.
The poster is based on Wool’s Untitled, 1990 (Dallas Museum of Art). The text is based on the philosopher Vasili Rozanov’s definition of Nihilism: “The show is over, the audience gets up to leave their seats, time to collects their coats and go home, they turn around, no more coats, no more home”.
The poster has been subsequently reprinted and republished by the artists for later exhibitions in similarly unnumbered but limited editions.
It is a tribute to the quality both of the poster and of the conceptual element behind it that an example of a full stack is today in the Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin (illustrated).
Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin. Photo: Sammlung Hoffman