Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Dulce venganza

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Dulce venganza brings the artist’s work to Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía, back to a city tied to his own biography. Gonzalez-Torres passed through Madrid as a child after leaving Cuba, then returned years later with a candy sculpture titled ‘Untitled’ (Revenge). That memory gives the exhibition its title, a phrase he once used for the return itself: sweet revenge.

The show follows the emotional and political charge of his practice through paper stacks, candy spills, light strings, curtains, and billboards, works that shift as people move through them, take from them, and leave their own trace.

Beauty stays close to grief, love, illness, and public life, especially in the context of the AIDS crisis and the conservative politics that shaped his years in the United States. Here, Gonzalez-Torres’s art feels alive because it keeps changing, holding tenderness and resistance in the same gesture.