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Item Number: 122021
Title: Saints Alive: MICHAEL LANDY in the National Gallery
Author: Wiggins, Colin (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781857095609
Description: London: National Gallery (Yale University Press), 2013. 27cm., pbk., 72pp., 62 color illus. Summary: The National Gallery in London has always inspired contemporary artists, and never more so than here. Michael Landy came to prominence with the Young British Artists of the 1980s and 90s; a group that rejected, among other things, notions of deference to traditional forms of art. This book is a record of Landy's three-year residency in a dedicated studio in the Gallery, from which he could explore the collection and create new work, from drawing to sculpture; illustrated with drawings, work in progress and in situ photography of the final installation. Although he attaches little importance to his own Catholic education, Landy was fascinated by the stories of the saints in the National Gallery Collection - once a part of common and religious culture, now largely forgotten. The resulting body of work is a mass of drawings - multiple copies of fragments from paintings - together with collages using largescale reproductions of paintings, and a series of monumental kinetic sculptures made from recycled machinery. The process of copying, central to Landy's practice while at the Gallery, and then translating his compositions into three dimensions, would have been recognisable to any of his artist predecessors, and reaffirms the continuing relevance of the traditions of Old Master painting for artists today. The sculptures themselves are fragmented assemblages: twodimensional paintings brought to life; whirring, moving, clanging. While intended to be playful in their interactivity, the gruesome imagery of Christian martyrdom, in all its horribly inventive forms, suggests otherwise, lending an inescapably macabre undertone.
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