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Cartes postales : exposition = tentoonstelling : London, Tate Modern, 15.06-05.09.10 : Bruxelles = Brussel, Wiels, 09.10.10-30.01.11 : New York, 08.05-01.08.11
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ISBN: 9789078937135 Year: 2010 Publisher: Brussel Wiels. Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst


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Francis Alÿs : as long as I'm walking
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ISBN: 9783037645727 3037645725 Year: 2021 Publisher: Geneva JRP Editions

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Published to accompany Francis Alÿs’ major exhibition at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne in 2021, this reference monograph is centered on some of the Belgian-born Mexican-based artist’s key motifs and features: his 30-year groundbreaking video practice; the importance of strolling and walking for his artistic method; his interest in children’s games which he has filmed in various countries since 1999. From urban wandering to the exploration of territories and their borders documented by moving images, Alÿs’ work proposes a poetics of space through brief narratives whose finesse and accuracy invite access by the general public. If his work questions the link between artistic act and political intervention, the artist always works by allusions, with remarkable precision and economy of means, preferring poetic polysemy to frontal political commentary, favoring the merging of planned imaginary spaces with his own fictional spaces. The publication also focuses on Reel-Unreel, one of Alÿs’ major projects realized in Afghanistan, comprising children’s games and hand-drawn animation loops as well as paintings and graphic works and the eponymous video Reel-Unreel (2011). Edited and introduced by MCBA Lausanne curator Nicole Schweizer, the book features comprehensive essays by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley; Luis Pérez-Oramas, independent curator and writer, New York; and Judith Rodenbeck, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California Riverside, and is generously illustrated.

Francis Alÿs : politics of rehearsal
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ISBN: 9783865214744 9780943739328 Year: 2007 Publisher: [Place of publication unknown] Hammer Museum/Steidl


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Francis Alÿs. A story of deception
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ISBN: 9781854378408 Year: 2010 Publisher: London Tate Publishing

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Francis Alÿs, geboren in België in 1959, is een van 's werelds belangrijkste hedendaagse kunstenaars. Na een architectuuropleiding in Venetië verhuisde hij in 1986 naar Mexico City, waar hij nog steeds woont. Zijn werk is qua schaal en techniek uiterst gevarieerd, gaande van eenvoudige tekeningen, over media zoals video, fotografie, schilderij en performance, tot de creatie van epische acties met honderden deelnemers. Mark Godfrey schreef voor deze publicatie het inleidend essay en Cuauhtémoc Medina commentarieerde samen met Alÿs meer dan zestig belangrijke werken. Het boek omvat voorst een alfabet met citaten van de kunstenaar, en beschouwingen over Alÿs' werk van een internationale groep kunstenaars, critici, dichters en stedenbouwkundigen.


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Francis Alÿs
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ISBN: 9780714875002 0714875007 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Phaidon

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A fully updated edition of the artist's first comprehensive monograph, more than a decade since its original publication. Francis Alÿs examines the patterns of various urban sites before weaving his own fables into their tangled social fabric with wit, sensitivity, and an acutely personal connection to his subject matter. A scene such as a Volkswagen Beetle struggling up a hill or a man pushing a block of ice can carry a message that resonates far beyond the work's simple parameters. As Alÿs puts it, 'Sometimes doing something poetic can become political, and sometimes doing something political can become poetic.'


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Francis Alÿs : children's games
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ISBN: 9789462085497 9462085498 Year: 2019 Publisher: Rotterdam nai010 publishers

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Francis Alÿs has documented children at play all over the world, from kids playing knucklebones in Nepal to musical chairs in Mexico or flying kites in Afghanistan. He filmed in peaceful towns and villages, but also against the backdrop of conflict and tension, such as at a Yezidi refugee camp in Iraq or in besieged Kabul. This book shows the ways children everywhere pass the time and create their own fantasies in games and leisure, whether skipping stones, sandcastles, marbles, or hopscotch. The project is presented here as a series for the first time, with contributions by journalist Lorna Scott Fox, filmmaker David MacDougall, and art critic and curator Cuauhtémoc Medina.

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