When Faith Moves Mountains
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| - | '''Francis Alÿs''' (b. 1959, [[Antwerp]], Belgium) is an artist who works across media and lives and works in [[Mexico City]]. He is represented by [[David Zwirner]], New York, and Peter Kilchmann, Zurich. | + | :''[[moving mountains]]'' |
| - | == Work == | + | ''[[When Faith Moves Mountains]]'' (2002) is a work of art by [[Francis Alÿs]] in which he recruited 500 volunteers outside of [[Lima]], [[Peru]]. Each person moved a shovel full of sand one step at a time from one side of a dune to the other, and together they moved the entire geographical location of the dune by a few inches. [[Art critic]] [[Jean Fisher]] writes that "the radical event of art precipitates a crisis of meaning or, rather, it exposes the void of meaning at the core of a given social situation, which is its truth." |
| - | Alÿs attended the Institute of Architecture in [[Tournai]] and the Istituto di Architettura in [[Venice]] before moving to [[Mexico City]] in 1986 where he started practicing as a visual artist. His work encompasses many media often involving the participation and presence of the artist. These performed events are documented in video, photographs, writing, painting, and animation. | + | |
| - | In his best-known work, ''[[When Faith Moves Mountains]]'' (2002), Alÿs recruited 500 volunteers outside of [[Lima]], [[Peru]]. Each person moved a shovel full of sand one step at a time from one side of a dune to the other, and together they moved the entire geographical location of the dune by a few inches. [[Art critic]] Jean Fisher writes that "the radical event of art precipitates a crisis of meaning or, rather, it exposes the void of meaning at the core of a given social situation, which is its truth." | ||
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| - | Alÿs' work has been shown in many international institutions, including [[The Renaissance Society]], Chicago (2008), the [[Hammer Museum]], Los Angeles(2007), Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2006); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Avignon, France (2004); Centro nazionale per le arti contemporanee, Rome, Italy [traveled to Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain] (all 2003); and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2002); and [[Or Gallery]], Vancouver, Canada (1998). His traveling show of portraits of the Saint Fabiola has traveled to London, New York, LAMCA | ||
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When Faith Moves Mountains (2002) is a work of art by Francis Alÿs in which he recruited 500 volunteers outside of Lima, Peru. Each person moved a shovel full of sand one step at a time from one side of a dune to the other, and together they moved the entire geographical location of the dune by a few inches. Art critic Jean Fisher writes that "the radical event of art precipitates a crisis of meaning or, rather, it exposes the void of meaning at the core of a given social situation, which is its truth."
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