Felix Gonzalez-Torres

From February 8 to April 25, 2026, La Cuadra will host an exhibition curated by Pablo León de la Barra that proposes a poetic dialogue and an imagined encounter between the work of artist Félix González-Torres (b. 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba; d. 1996, Miami) and the architectural spaces of Luis Barragán (b. 1902, Guadalajara, Jalisco; d. 1988, Mexico City) at La Cuadra, built in 1968 as private stables on the outskirts of Mexico City and one of the architect’s most iconic works.

About Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Félix González-Torres (1957–1996) was a Cuban-American artist who played a key role in contemporary art in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His work, characterized by conceptual rigor and formal economy, uses everyday materials to articulate poetic and political meanings related to love, loss, memory, and power. He lived and worked in New York and was a member of the Group Material collective. His work has been featured in major exhibitions and retrospectives at institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, and the Hirshhorn, and is now part of leading international public collections.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Luis Barragán's La Cuadra

Curated by Pablo León de la Barra

The exhibition Félix González-Torres at La Cuadra de Luis Barragán proposes an encounter and a poetic dialogue between the work of artist Félix González-Torres and the architectural spaces of Luis Barragán at La Cuadra de San Cristóbal, built in 1968 as private stables on the outskirts of Mexico City and considered one of Barragán’s most iconic works. Although Barragán and González-Torres never met—belonging to different generations, developing their practices in different fields, and emerging from diverse social contexts and environments—their works reveal a series of resonances that, when brought into relation, create a friction between them from which new readings and new possible interpretations of both bodies of work emerge.

Luis Barragán (b. 1902, Guadalajara, Jalisco; d. 1988, Mexico City) is considered Mexico’s most significant modernist architect; Félix González-Torres (b. 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba; d. 1996, Miami) is one of the most influential artistic figures to emerge in the 20th century. Both Barragán and González-Torres, each through their own distinct practice, subverted the language of minimalism. Barragán anticipated minimalism as an artistic movement and, through the abstraction of the vocabulary of colonial and vernacular architecture, produced an architectural language unique within modernism, as well as what today might be considered within the field of art as pioneering works of large-scale minimalist art. For his part, González-Torres questioned the self-referential essentialism of minimalism and 1960s conceptual art, demonstrating that works of art could contain political and personal meanings, and through them engage the viewer. Throughout his life, Barragán engaged in continuous creative dialogue and collaboration with various artists who, in one way or another, had a direct influence on his work, including Chucho Reyes, Dr. Atl, José Clemente Orozco, Miguel Covarrubias, Rosa Rolanda, Clara Porset, Mathías Goeritz, Josef and Anni Albers, and Sheila Hicks, among others. Showing the work of Félix González-Torres at La Cuadra de Luis Barragán expands the possibilities for dialogue between art and architecture and allows for new emotional, poetic, and political interpretations of both artists’ work.

The year 2026 also marks the 30th anniversary of González-Torres’s death at the age of 38 from AIDS-related complications. This exhibition honors his life and legacy, as well as that of many others who, like him, died from this disease, particularly in Mexico, where the stigma of the time contributed to their lives being rendered invisible and forgotten. The exhibition is dedicated to those whose lives were cut short by AIDS and to those who, out of fear and because they lived in repressive societies, were unable—or still cannot—to live their sexuality openly.

Continue reading here— Félix González-Torres Brochure

Photographs—

1. “Untitled” (Sagittarius), 1993–1994. Installation views of works by Félix González-Torres at La Cuadra de Luis Barragán, 2026. Courtesy of the Félix González-Torres Foundation and La Cuadra, with support from the Romero Foundation. Photo: Gerardo Landa & Eduardo López – GLR Estudio

2. “Untitled” (Orpheus, Twice), 1991. Installation views of works by Félix González-Torres at La Cuadra de Luis Barragán, 2026. Courtesy of the Félix González-Torres Foundation and La Cuadra, with support from the Romero Foundation. Photo: Gerardo Landa & Eduardo López – GLR Estudio.

3. “Untitled, ” 1992–1993. Installation views of works by Félix González-Torres at La Cuadra de Luis Barragán, 2026. Courtesy of the Félix González-Torres Foundation and La Cuadra, with support from the Romero Foundation. Photo: Gerardo Landa & Eduardo López – GLR Estudio.

4. “Untitled” (Golden), 1995. Installation views of works by Félix González-Torres at La Cuadra de Luis Barragán, 2026. Courtesy of the Félix González-Torres Foundation and La Cuadra, with support from the Romero Foundation. Photo: Gerardo Landa & Eduardo López – GLR Estudio.

5. “Untitled” (Last Light), 1993. Installation views of works by Félix González-Torres at La Cuadra de Luis Barragán, 2026. Courtesy of the Félix González-Torres Foundation and La Cuadra, with support from the Romero Foundation. Photo: Gerardo Landa & Eduardo López – GLR Estudio.

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