Francis Alys

Francis Alys (two dots over the y)

I was initially drawn to Francis Alys through his work with performance art, photography, and book arts.
He says the style of his painting is derived from hand-painted signs in his neighborhood in Mexico City. He sort of plays a game of Telestrations with commercial sign painters by giving them copies and then working from the reproductions.  As the process continued, it would ask questions about painting itself and relationships with painting and between painters in the modern world.

He works with narratives and introspective situations. His work with reproductions reminds me of Luc Tuymans.

http://www.francisalys.com/public/painting.html