Ross Laycock

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Ross Laycock was the longtime romantic partner and muse of conceptual artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, whose illness and death from AIDS profoundly shaped Gonzalez-Torres’s emotionally charged, minimalist works.

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instanceOf Felix Gonzalez-Torres muse
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dateOfDeath 1991
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University of Toronto
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use of absence and presence in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work
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influencedGenre conceptual art
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inspiredWork Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s emotionally charged minimalist works
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres partner Ross Laycock