“Untitled” (Death by Gun)

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“Untitled” (Death by Gun) is a conceptual artwork by Felix Gonzalez-Torres consisting of a stack of printed sheets bearing images and statistics of people killed by firearms, inviting viewers to take copies and reflect on gun violence and loss.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf conceptual artwork
installation art
artHistoricalContext 1990s conceptual and political art
artworkType take-away stack piece
circulation sheets can circulate outside the museum
collection held in multiple museum collections
conceptualStrategy dematerialization of the art object
use of everyday printed matter
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Felix Gonzalez-Torres NERFINISHED
dataSource news media images
statistical records of gun deaths
depicts people killed by firearms
victims of gun violence
displayMode stack against a wall
stack placed directly on the floor
exhibitionPractice stack is replenished by the institution
format stack of printed sheets
genre conceptual art
hasPart individual printed sheets
intendedEffect awareness of human cost of firearms
confrontation with statistical abstraction of death
reflection on gun violence
invitesAction viewers may take copies of the sheets
language English
materiality mass-produced sheets
medium offset print on paper
printed paper stack
movement contemporary art
relationToArtistPractice engages with themes of loss and politics common in his oeuvre
part of Gonzalez-Torres’s series of stack works
rightsHolder Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation NERFINISHED
theme collective memory
media representation of violence
mortality
social critique
topic death
gun violence
loss
political violence
uses photographic images
statistical information
text
viewerParticipation removal of sheets from the stack

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres notableWork “Untitled” (Death by Gun)