Francis Alÿs: The Sign Painting Project 1993-97: A Revision A Catalogue

The Belgian-born conceptual painter and artistic interventionist Francis Alys developed The Sign Painting Project over a period of four years. He began by painting fairly small canvases depicting people and objects in the flat, brightly-colored manner of billboard advertisements. The artist, who currently lives in Mexico, then asked local sign-painters Juan Garcia, Enrique Huerta and Emilio Rivera to copy and enlarge his paintings. The result of the artists' combined labors is a set of 120 paintings that reveal variations on particular themes and that inevitably provoke questions about collaboration, authorship and originality. This book, which features 300 color plates, is a catalogue raisonn of that project.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865212905
• ISBN13: 9783865212900
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Steidl & Schaulager, Basel
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.7" x 0.6" x 10.6"