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The artist Fritzia Irizar questions the value of money and its purchasing power through objects taken out of their common environment which take on symbolic qualities. Irizar removes their monetary value and transforms the perception that viewers have of them. Text in English and Spanish.
A fully updated edition of the artist's first comprehensive monograph, more than a decade since its original publication Francis Alÿs examines the patterns of various urban sites before weaving his own fables into their tangled social fabric with wit, sensitivity, and an acutely personal connection to his subject matter. A scene such as a Volkswagen Beetle struggling up a hill or a man pushing a block of ice can carry a message that resonates far beyond the work's simple parameters. As Alÿs puts it, 'Sometimes doing something poetic can become political, and sometimes doing something political can become poetic.' Alÿs's work has been included in the world's top international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, Documenta, the Carnegie International, and the São Paulo Biennal. This book features two new essays by renowned anthropologist Michael Taussig as well as new writings by the artist and exhaustive visual presentations of his recent project in Afghanistan and Iraq. The publication is timed to tie in with Alÿs's first major North American exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opening in 2020.
This is a lavishly illustrated overview of the groundbreaking Domino Canibal project in Spain. This superbly illustrated volume provides readers with an engaging and insightful overview of the groundbreaking Domino Canibal project. Held at a single venue over a 12-month period (Jan-Dec 2010), Domino Canibal allowed successive artists - including Jimmie Durham, Cristina Lucas, Tania Bruguera, and Francis Alys - to create new and original works by reinterpreting, demolishing, appropriating, and canibalising the work of preceding artists, creating a dynamic artistic process not normally found among other, more established forms of exhibition.
Chronicling the aesthetics of sacrifice in Mexican artist Ximena Labra's public interventions This volume documents 25 years of public interventions by Mexico City-based artist Ximena Labra (born 1972). Focusing in particular on Labra's use of the supernatural and carnivalesque aesthetics of sacrifice, the book features texts by Cuauhtemoc Medina, Jose Luis Barrios and Bef.
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