Francis Alÿs

Esquivias, Daniel Von Sturmer, Delphine Reist, Francis Alÿs, Paul McCarthy, Richard Wentworth, Robert Rooney, Joan Jonas, John Baldessari, Tony Schwensen, Ulay, Vito AcconciCurator: Juliana EngbergIn the Press...

...to a whole generation of artists from the ‘90s, which includes Francis Alÿs, Abraham Cruzvillegas and Melanie Smith, as well as a complex, burgeoning and much-discussed contemporary scene in the early twenty-first century. Authored by the city as much as they are authors of it, the work...

...this most important physical and philosophical shape in culture: a form that has been reshaped by philosophy to operate as a metaphor for the growing complexity of humanity’s progressive drama. Exhibiting Artists: Francis Alys, Colin Duncan, Rodney Graham, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Ilia and Emilia Kabakov...

The term ‘desire lines’ refers to the wayward, improvised tracks created by walkers and others who defy the ways designed for them by urban regulators and councils. Sometime known as ‘goat trails’ they show the preferable path, and indicate our more maverick and intuitive navigations. Extrapolating from this premise, Desire Lines at ACCA took audiences […]

...reproductions of work by Bruce Nauman, Samuel Beckett, Joan Jonas, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Mel O’Callaghan, Robert Smithson, Tacita Dean, Richard Long, Rachel Lowe, Dan Shipsides, Shipsides & Beggs Project, Mercea Cantor, Paulien Oltheten, Francis Alÿs, Rodney Graham, Todd McMillan, Jochen...

...reproductions of work by Bruce Nauman, Samuel Beckett, Joan Jonas, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Mel O’Callaghan, Robert Smithson, Tacita Dean, Richard Long, Rachel Lowe, Dan Shipsides, Shipsides & Beggs Project, Mercea Cantor, Paulien Oltheten, Francis Alÿs, Rodney Graham, Todd McMillan...

...of the 19th century, and New York the capital of the 20th, then Mexico City is the capital of the 21st. Artists such as Francis Alÿs, Abraham Cruzvillegas and Melanie Smith are crucial factors in the development and cultivation of Mexico City, as place, myth, metropolis and site of cultural production...

...strongest economy, but as a node of rich and potent cultural production. This is in part thanks to a whole generation of artists from the ‘90s which include Francis Alÿs, Abraham Cruzvillegas and Melanie Smith as well as a burgeoning, much-discussed contemporary scene. Authored by the city as much...

August 6 - September 26 2010 A new survey exhibition where artists use gestures, rituals and repetitions in video and photography opens at ACCA on August 6th...