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- Title
As margens espacializadas de Francis Alÿs.
- Authors
Konrath, Germana; Reyes, Paulo
- Abstract
Francis Alÿs, a Belgian naturalized Mexican artist, has a notoriously urban poetic that is closely related to his background as an architect. His works, however, are not guided by the Vitruvian principles of firmitas nor utilitas - and even the beauty (or venustas) of his actions is at odds with the canons of Art History. Alÿs' trajectory emerges from fables that bring to life the rituals of deterritorialization-reterritorialization invented by the artist for every city he goes through. This text put into dialogue works in which Alÿs shapes common time-spaces through collective participation, with theoretical legacy by Jacques Rancière, Michel de Certeau and the duo Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It is our interest to discuss the aesthetic - and therefore political - contributions of Alÿs, particularly in physical and symbolic border situations of the contemporary city.
- Subjects
ART history; ARCHITECTS; AESTHETICS; ARTISTS; DUETS; FABLES
- Publication
Urbana (19820569), 2019, Vol 11, Issue 3, p30
- ISSN
1982-0569
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20396/urbana.v11i3.8656083