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Francis Alÿs : juego de niñxs, 1992-2022 = Francis Alÿs : children's games, 1992-2022 / en colaboración con Julien Devaux, Rafael Ortega, Félix Blume, Elena Pardo, Emilio Rivera, Alejandro Morales.

Fine Arts Library N6973.A49 A4 2023
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Alÿs, Francis, 1959-
Morales, Alejandro, contributor.
Rivera, Emilio, contributor.
Pardo, Elena, contributor.
Blume, Félix, contributor.
Ortega, Rafael, contributor.
Devaux, Julien, contributor.
Museo de Arte de Zapopan, host institution.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, issuing body, host institution.
Series:
Folio MUAC ; 099.
Folio MUAC ; 099
Standardized Title:
Francis Alÿs (MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo)
Language:
English
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Alÿs, Francis, 1959---Exhibitions.
Alÿs, Francis.
Games--History--21st century--Exhibitions.
Games.
Photography of children--Exhibitions.
Photography of children.
Video art--History--21st century--Exhibitions.
Video art.
Children in art--Exhibitions.
Children in art.
Alÿs, Francis, 1959-.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
159 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Edition:
Primera edición = First edition.
Other Title:
Juego de niñxs, 1992-2022
Francis Alÿs : children's games, 1992-2022
Children's games, 1992-2022
Place of Publication:
Ciudad de México : MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo ; Barcelona, España : RM Verlag, 2023.
Language Note:
Texts in Spanish and English.
Summary:
Exhibition of the production of an emblematic artist of the national and international contemporary scene. Since 1999, Alÿs has been producing videos that document the games that children play on the street and in courtyards around the world. Childrenœs Games is an ongoing archive of urban practices that modernization has been banishing from everyday life as the concept of public space is distorted by the domination of motor vehicles and free time by electronic diversions. Many of these videos have been shot in relatively economically underdeveloped regions of the world, where the strength of tradition and community have allowed the shared life of a childhood on the street to survive. While they frequently have a direct value as ethnographic documentation, they also metaphorically record transformations and conflicts in contemporary societies. But both in the mysterious way in which certain games are played practically identically in extremely different societies, as well as in their human value, they also become a signifying mechanism that unites a variety of cultures and ways of life. "Some time ago, Francis Alÿs told me that Childrenœs Games was one of his favorite projects: Sometimes I think that the only way I should spend my time is by finishing this series.ʺ After all, it was becoming increasingly difficult to find these games being played in contemporary cities and societies." --Page 17.
Exhibition of the production of an emblematic artist of the national and international contemporary scene. Since 1999, Alÿs has been producing videos that document the games that children play on the street and in courtyards around the world. Childrenœs Games is an ongoing archive of urban practices that modernization has been banishing from everyday life as the concept of public space is distorted by the domination of motor vehicles and free time by electronic diversions. Many of these videos have been shot in relatively economically underdeveloped regions of the world, where the strength of tradition and community have allowed the shared life of a childhood on the street to survive. While they frequently have a direct value as ethnographic documentation, they also metaphorically record transformations and conflicts in contemporary societies. But both in the mysterious way in which certain games are played practically identically in extremely different societies, as well as in their human value, they also become a signifying mechanism that unites a variety of cultures and ways of life. "Some time ago, Francis Alÿs told me that Childrenœs Games was one of his favorite projects: Sometimes I think that the only way I should spend my time is by finishing this series.ʺ After all, it was becoming increasingly difficult to find these games being played in contemporary cities and societies." --Page 17.
Contents:
Una colección de innumerables pequeñas alegoríasʺ. Los Juegos de niñxs de Francis Alÿs = A Collection of innumerable little allegoriesʺ. Francis Alÿsœs "Children's Games" / Cuauhtémoc Medina
Francis Alÿs y los Juegos de niñxs: el helicóptero y el saltamontes = Francis Alÿs and Childrenœs Games: The helicopter and the grasshopper / Luis Pérez-Oramas
Juegos de niñxs = Childrenœs Games 1999-2022 / Textos de = Texts by Lorna Scott Fox
Semblanza = Biographical Sketch
Catálogo = Catalog.
Una colección de innumerables pequeñas alegoríasʺ. Los Juegos de niñxs de Francis Alÿs = A Collection of innumerable little allegoriesʺ. Francis Alÿsœs "Children's Games" / Cuauhtémoc Medina
Francis Alÿs y los Juegos de niñxs: el helicóptero y el saltamontes = Francis Alÿs and Childrenœs Games: The helicopter and the grasshopper / Luis Pérez-Oramas
Juegos de niñxs = Childrenœs Games 1999-2022 / Textos de = Texts by Lorna Scott Fox
Catálogo = Catalog.
Notes:
Publicado con motivo de la exposición Francis Alÿs. Juegos de niñxs, 1999-2022 (11 de febrero al 17 de septiembre de 2023) MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México; (invierno de 2023-2024) MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco = Published on occasion of the exhibition Francis Alÿs. Childrenœs Games, 1999-2022 (February 11 to September 17, 2022) MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City; (Winter 2023- 2024) MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jaliscoʺ -- Colofón.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9788419233523
8419233528
9786073072113
6073072112
OCLC:
1370199110

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