EAN: 9783969120729

FRANCIS ALŸS - DAVID MACDOUGALL GEBUNDEN

The Belgian artist Francis Alÿs (b. Antwerp  1959) makes work that is as multifaceted as it is
poetically subversive. Straddling the line between performative conceptual art and community
intervention  his films and drawings chart the political and social realities of urban spaces.
One of his most imposing long-term projects is "Children's Games"  for which he documents
children playing all over the world  from Paris and Mexico City to the Yezidi refugee camp
Sharya in Iraq. The richly illustrated book contains ideas and sketches he compiled in
preparation for this series. It lets us glimpse into the engine room of his artistic practice 
revealing key elements of his filmic poetics. An essay by the ethnographer and filmmaker David
MacDougall embeds Alÿs's observations of children's play in the contexts of childhood studies
as well as the history of ethnographic documentary film.  Francis Alÿs (b. Antwerp  1959) is
widely regarded as one of the foremost artists working today. His oeuvre  which has garnered
numerous prizes and been featured in solo exhibitions around the world  encompasses films 
photographs  performances  drawings  and paintings  many of them explorations of the social and
political realities of urban spaces. Since 1986  Alÿs  who trained as an architect  has lived
in Mexico City  where he moved after the major earthquake of 1985 to help in the rebuilding
effort.

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