The sociologically inclined Landy is creating an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Kaldor Public Art Projects. He discusses the challenges of reviving archival ghost...
Sunley Room, National Gallery, London 23 May–24 November 2013
by ANNA McNAY
“Before we go any further, can I just make sure that you actually know who I am and that yo...
The artist’s first major retrospective, 30 years after his death, reveals a powerful talent, a pioneer in bio- and installation art, with a potent message about fear of other a...
... Whiteread’s cast of a terraced house, Roger Hiorns transformation of a council flat into a blue crystal cave and Michael Landy’s destruction of all his possessions in ...
... have also been influenced by TV, by life, by books, and so on.
AMc: What is it like living with another artist [your partner, Michael Landy]? Do you give each other feed...
... at Goldsmiths included Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Michael Landy and Gillian Wearing, he recalled that their preferred materials as students were light bulbs, ...
... monochrome drawings across mediums – works that, together, capture the characteristics associated with British artists. Peter Blake and Michael Landy approach portraitur...
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Mat Collishaw’s contemporaries at Goldsmith’s included Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Michael Landy and Gillian Wearing. He has recently refuted the notion ...
... for immersion.
Michael Landy, on our back cover, caught the emergent existential mood of the year with Art Bin at the South London Gallery (page 42). As Landy says: “Y...
... from the things we own or possess.”1
Since emerging from Goldsmiths at the beginning of the last major recession, Michael Landy has pursued particular themes across a ...
... artists to a position of superintendence.
All the more memorable for eschewing production values was a piece by Michael Landy, stowed away in Waddington’s booth, among...