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FRANCIS ALS: A STORY OF DECEPTION PRESENTS A SURVEY OF BOTH
ICONIC AND NEW BODIES OF WORK EXPLORING SOCIAL THEMES THROUGH
ALLEGORY
Exhibition Highlights MoMA's Recent Acquisitions of Works by the
Artist
Francis Alÿs: A Story of
Deception
May 8-August 1,
2011
MoMA, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery, sixth
floor
MoMA PS1, first
floor
Press Preview: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
NEW YORK, April 6, 2011Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, on
view at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 beginning May 8, draws upon MoMA's
unique and important collection of work by artist Francis Alÿs (Belgian, b.
1959), who uses poetic and allegorical methods to explore the social realities
of political concepts, including the cyclical nature of change in modernizing
societies, the urban landscape, and patterns of economic progress. Alÿs's
personal, ambulatory explorations of cities form the basis for his practice,
through which he compiles extensive documentation reflecting his process,
producing complex and diverse bodies of work that include video, painting,
performance, drawing, and photography. Organized in collaboration with Alÿs, the
presentation at MoMA is conceptually grouped around three major recent
acquisitions
Re-enactments (2001), When Faith Moves Mountains (2002), and
Rehearsal I (Ensayo I) (1999-2001)each on view for the first time at the
Museum. Using the mechanics of rehearsal and re-enactment in urban environments,
Alÿs comments on the politics of public space with both solitary actions and
large-scale collaborations, where the culmination of many small acts achieves
mythic proportions. Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception is on view at The
Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 from May 8 to August 1, 2011. The exhibition
is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA's Chief Curator at Large and Director of
MoMA PS1; and Cara Starke, Assistant Curator, Department of Media and
Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art.
Francis Alÿs studied architecture in Tournai and Venice before moving to Mexico
City in 1986, where he has lived since. While this displacement has provided him
with a unique vantage point on the country, Alÿs's awareness of his outsider
status is reflected in several of his projects. Alÿs's works frequently begin
with an action performed or initiated by him that can be witnessed in real time
but also discovered through its documentation after the event. Large-scale
installations such as Re-enactments, When Faith Moves Mountains, and
Rehearsal I (Ensayo I) contain each of these aspects: the
conceptualization and planning of the piece and action, the action itself, the
distillation of the action, the video documentation, and the related materials.
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IMAGE
CAPTIONS:
1. Francis Alÿs. The Modern Procession. 2002. Photographic documentation
of an event. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Silverweed
Foundation. © 2011 Francis
Alÿs.
2. Francis Alÿs (Belgian, born 1959). Re-enactments (detail). 2001. Video
still from an installation comprising two-channel video (color, sound),
drawings, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The Museum of Modern Art, New
York. Gift of The Speyer Family Foundation, Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr.,
Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Anna Marie and
Robert F. Shapiro, The Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, and Committee on
Media Funds. © Francis Alÿs and David Zwirner
Gallery
3. Link to MoMA
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