This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition, Francis Alÿs: A Story of Negotiation. An investigation into the parallel activities of painting and performance. Francis Alÿs's art is centered around observations of, and engagements with, everyday life. His multifaceted projects include public actions, installations, videos, paintings, and drawings; the artist himself has described his work as "a sort of discursive argument composed of episodes, metaphors, or parables." Across these different media, Alÿs presents his distinct poetic and imaginative sensibility towards anthropological and political concerns. His actions have involved traveling the longest possible route between locations in Mexico and the United States to highlight the increasing obstacles imposed along the border; pushing a melting block of ice through city streets; commissioning sign painters to copy his paintings; filming his efforts to enter the center of a tornado; carrying a leaking can of paint along the contested Israel/Palestine border; and equipping hundreds of volunteers to move a colossal sand dune ten centimeters.

Francis Alÿs. Relato de una negociación / A story of negotiation

FRANCIS ALŸS

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Francis Alÿs. Relato de una negociación / A story of negotiation