A closeup of the licorice candies. You can see how the space was disturbed as people touched or took the candy. I assume that additional candy will be added as people take things. Born in Cuba, Gonzalez-Torres is known for conceptual art. According to one writer, his work treads a fine line between two realms--social commentary and personal disclosure. Randy Kennedy talks about this art on many levels: "candy as candy; as art object; as a questioning of art objects; as a metaphor for mortality and depletion in the age of AIDS; as a means for his art and ideas literally to be spread, like a virus — or maybe like joy — by everyone who took a piece."He is only the second artist to be represented in the Biennale posthumously--the other being Robert Smithson.
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