Francis Alÿs
Sign Painting Project
Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 1997
220 pp., 14.5 x 27 cm., hardcover
Edition size unknown
The Belgian-born conceptual painter and artistic interventionist Francis Alys developed The Sign Painting Project over a period of four years.
Produced between 1993 and 1997, the Sign Paintings were a collaboration between Francis Alÿs and professional local sign painters in Mexico City.
Alÿs began by painting small canvases in the flat, brightly-coloured style of the billboards he encountered in his neighbourhood in the Centro Histórico. He then commissioned sign-painters Juan Garcia, Enrique Huerta and Emilio Rivera to copy and enlarge them.
The result of the artists’ combined labour is a collection of 120 paintings that provoke questions about collaboration, authorship and originality. Texts by Juan García, Emilio Rivera, and Enrique Huerta.
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