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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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ross Laycock canonical | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Felix Gonzalez-Torres muse
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human ⓘ muse ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
HIV/AIDS crisis
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LGBTQ+ history ⓘ queer art history ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | AIDS ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1991 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Alberta
NERFINISHED
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University of Toronto ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Canadian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | linguistics ⓘ |
| hasDisease | AIDS ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
emotional reception of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work
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interpretation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work as elegiac ⓘ reading of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work within AIDS-era art ⓘ |
| hasSignificantRelationship | Felix Gonzalez-Torres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | Felix Gonzalez-Torres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedCharacteristic |
emotionally charged content in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work
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memorial quality of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work ⓘ themes of loss in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work ⓘ themes of love in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work ⓘ themes of mortality in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work ⓘ use of absence and presence in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work ⓘ use of everyday materials in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work ⓘ use of minimalist forms in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work ⓘ use of paired forms in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work ⓘ use of personal biography in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
conceptual art
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minimalist art ⓘ |
| influencedWorkOf | Felix Gonzalez-Torres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredTheme |
grief in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s art
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intimacy in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s art ⓘ memory in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s art ⓘ partnership in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s art ⓘ politics of the AIDS epidemic in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s art ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s emotionally charged minimalist works ⓘ |
| memberOf | University of Alberta faculty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| museOf | Felix Gonzalez-Torres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the longtime romantic partner of Felix Gonzalez-Torres
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inspiring the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres ⓘ |
| occupation | academic ⓘ |
| partOf | personal narrative of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s oeuvre ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticPartner | Felix Gonzalez-Torres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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