// CIUDAD JUÁREZ PROJECTS //

David Zwirner presents Ciudad Juárez projects, an exhibition displaying a group of recent works by Francis Alÿs. Made in and about Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a once prosperous border city that in recent years has been devastated by drug-related violence, the artists’ works on display date between 2010 and 2015.

 Home to the Belgian artist since 1986, Mexico City has since provided a rich setting for his varied actions and works which are often characterised by a distinct poetic and imaginative sensibility towards anthropological and geopolitical concerns, and centred around observations of, and engagements with, everyday life.

  In the works on view the artist does not offer solutions, but rather poses open-ended questions, in particular related to the role of the artist in a time of a national crisis in an area affected by violence and crime.

Francis Alÿs - Ciudad Juárez projects

David Zwirner

London

11.6.2016 – 5.8.2016

© Francis Alÿs. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London.

  / by Kim Poorters /

// DRIFT //

David Zwirner opens later this week with an exhibition centered around a group of twenty-two paintings by Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser which were completed shortly before his death in October 2012.Known as The Last Wall, the series is shown here in its entirety for the first time.

 Revisiting some major themes that occupied the painter throughout his career, such as the landscape of the Belgian lowlands, the inconspicuous things at hand, and the partition of the picture plane, the works remain formally and materially restrained in their colourful compositions, subtly evocative and at once straightforward and cryptic, abstract and figurative.

Raoul De Keyser - Drift

David Zwirner

New York

18.3.2016 – 23.04.2016

© Raoul De Keyser. Courtesy David Zwirner and Zeno X Gallery.

/ by Kim Poorters /