Francis Alÿs

Don't Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River, 2013
Texts by Francis Alÿs, Kazumo Yoshizaki and Yukie Kamiya

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Hardcover, 123 pages, color, 25 × 18 cm, Japanese/English

 

Belgian artist Francis Alys employs a broad range of media, from painting to performance, and his diverse body of work often explores urbanity and spatial objectivity through investigations of the tension between poetics and politics, individual action and impotence. Operating within the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice, his idealistic and symbolic actions accentuate political challenges and anxieties. Central to this catalogue for a solo exhibition of work by Alys at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo are his actions at Key West (USA) and Havana, and at the Strait of Gibraltar. Included are essays by curators Yuki Kamiya and Kazuhiko Yoshizaki.