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Francis Huys, Fabiola, n.d. Photo: Francesca Esmay
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Francis Alÿs. Sometimes doing something poetic can become political and sometimes doing something political can become poetic. New York: David Zwirner, 2007. In collaboration with Julien Devaux, Philippe Bellaiche, and Rachel Leah Jones.
Francis Alÿs. London: Phaidon, 2007. Texts by Francis Alÿs, Jean Fisher, Cuauhtémoc Medina, and Augusto Monterroso. Interview by Russell Ferguson.
Alÿs, Francis, and Cuauhtémoc Medina. When faith moves mountains. Madrid: Turner, 2005. Texts by Susan Buck-Morss, Gustavo Buntinx, Lynne Cooke, Corinne Diserens, and Gerardo Mosquera.
Francis Alÿs. The Modern Procession. New York: Public Art Fund, 2004. Texts by Francis Alÿs, Lynne Cooke, Alejandro Diaz, Tom Eccles, Susan K. Freedman, Dario Gamboni, RoseLee Goldberg, Laurence Kardish, Harper Montgomery, Francesco Pellizzi, and Robert Storr.
Fabiola: Una investigación de Francis Alÿs en colaboración con Curare Espacio Crítico para las Artes. Mexico City: Curare, 1994. Texts by Cuauhtémoc Medina and Francis Alÿs.
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| Biography |
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Francis Alÿs was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959. He studied architecture at the Institut d’Architecture de Tournai, Belgium, and the Istituto di Architettura di Venezia, Italy. He began to work as an artist in 1990 after moving to Mexico City and had his first one-person exhibition there in 1991. Major exhibitions of his work have been presented at such venues as Art Angel, London (2005); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, and touring (2004); and the Musée d’art contemporain, Avignon, France (2004). He participated in the Venice Biennial
in 2007 and 2001 and the Carnegie International in 2004. Alÿs lives and works in Mexico City and London.
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Special thanks to The Hispanic Society of America.
This program is made possible by the Brown Foundation, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, and Erica and Joseph Samuels. Additional support is provided in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York City Councilmember Robert Jackson; and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.
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