Francis Alÿs

                 

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FRANCIS ALÿS: IN A GIVEN SITUATION
COSAC NAIFY
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ISBN: 9788575039427 | TRADE
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FRANCIS ALÿS: POSTCARDS
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
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ISBN: 9780870707995 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 11/30/2010 | Awaiting stock

FRANCIS ALÿS: LE TEMPS DU SOMMEIL
CHARTA/IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
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ISBN: 9788881587773 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 9/30/2010 | In stock

FRANCIS ALÿS: A STORY OF DECEPTION
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
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ISBN: 9780870707902 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 8/31/2010 | In stock

FRANCIS ALÿS: THE HISTORIC CENTER OF MEXICO CITY
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ISBN: 9788475067193 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 3/1/2006 | Awaiting stock

FRANCIS ALÿS: WHEN FAITH CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS
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PARKETT NO. 69 FRANCIS ALYS, ISA GENZKEN, ANISH KAPOOR
PARKETT
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ISBN: 9783907582190 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 1/2/2004 | In stock

FRANCIS ALÿS: THE MODERN PROCESSION
PUBLIC ART FUND
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ISBN: 9780960848829 | TRADE
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FRANCIS ALÿS: THE PROPHET AND THE FLY
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FRANCIS ALÿS: BLUE ORANGE 2004
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
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ISBN: 9783883758664 | SDNR30
PUB DATE: 3/15/2005 | Not available

FRANCIS ALÿS: WALKING DISTANCE FROM THE STUDIO
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
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ISBN: 9783775715416 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 2/15/2005 | Not available

Francis Alÿs

Francis Alÿs: Le Temps du Sommeil

Afterword by Enrique Juncosa.
Published by Charta/Irish Museum of Modern Art

The Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs (born 1959) is known for his walks and tales executed in a wide range of media (documentary film, painting, photography, performance, video and installation) that marry humor and sensitivity, banality and spontaneity, personal and political. A compulsive wanderer, many of his works involve intense observation and recording of the social, cultural and economic conditions of urban life. This beautifully designed volume presents an ongoing series of paintings that function as kind of a storyboard and archive of the artist's oeuvre to date. Begun in 1996, Le Temps du Sommeil ("The Time of Sleep") comprises over 100 paintings accompanied by instructions and postcards related--sometimes obliquely--to the artist's past performative actions. The instructions and paintings are presented en face, giving birth to a text-image dialogue that is sometimes witty and always fascinating. Le Temps du Sommeil affirms Alÿs yet again as an artist always able to surprise.

FRANCIS ALÿS: LE TEMPS DU SOMMEIL
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Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception

Edited by Mark Godfrey, Klaus Biesenbach. Text by Eduardo Abaroa, Klaus Biesenbach, Francesco Careri, Carla Faesler, Mark Godfrey, Boris Groys, Miwon Kwon, Tom McDonough, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Eyal Weizman.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Working in a variety of media and a range of scales, from humble works on paper to monumental staged performances, Francis Alÿs (born 1959) has established himself as one of the world's leading contemporary artists. Based in Mexico City since 1986, the artist fashions much of his work from the street life he observes during long walks throughout the city. Bringing together a variety of participants, from Mexican sign-painters to British Guardsmen, his collaborations have produced several well-known works, including "When Faith Moves Mountains" (2002), in which he enlisted 500 volunteers to attempt to move a sand dune one foot from its original position using shovels, and "The Modern Procession" (2002), a ceremonial procession commemorating MoMA's temporary move to Queens, New York, that included a brass band and uniformed participants carrying reproductions of the Museum's most famous works across the Queensboro bridge. Published to accompany the largest retrospective of Alÿs' work to date, this publication is more a guidebook than a conventional monograph, reflecting the spirit of the artist's wandering practice. It features an introductory essay by Mark Godfrey, a curator at the Tate Modern, an index of quotes from Alÿs' previous writings and interviews compiled by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, and descriptions of works written by Alÿs and Cuauhtémoc Medina, freelance curator and art critic, as well as responses to the artist's work from a wide range of critics and commentators.

FRANCIS ALÿS: A STORY OF DECEPTION
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Parkett No. 69 Francis Alys, Isa Genzken, Anish Kapoor

Artwork by Francis Als, Isa Genzken, Anish Kapoor.
Published by Parkett

For Parkett No. 69, the featured collaboration artists are Belgian conceptual artist Francis Alÿs, German sculptor and mixed-media artist Isa Genzken, and the Indian-born, London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor. Authors include Saul Anton, Robert Storr, and Kitty Scott on Als; Pamela Lee and Jörg Heiser on Genzken, and an interview with Genzken by Michael Krajewski; and Norman Bryson, Marina Warner and Kurt Forster on Kapoor. Other features include Philip Kaiser on Amelie von Wulffen, Stuart Comer on Swetlana Heger and a special Parkett Inquiry on consensus in contemporary art world titled “The Economy of Attention.” The twentieth-anniversary issue, Parkett No. 70, will be published in summer 2004, with special collaborations and projects to be announced.

PARKETT NO. 69 FRANCIS ALYS, ISA GENZKEN, ANISH KAPOOR
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