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Museum Tinguely Michael Landy (English Edition) Out Of Order
Michael Landy (b. 1963) belongs to the group of "Young British Artists," who, beginning in 1988, caused an international sensation. He created installations, in which real life and fiction entered into an unsettling liaison. Landy's art is characterized by an intensive analysis of society, of its attitude towards consumption, towards the world of commodities, the transience of things, and the way society deals with ownership and letting go of this. With his works, he raises essential (unspoken) questions: How does the ownership of material objects affect us? What do we need to live? But also: How creative is destruction? Time and again, the artist succeeds in coming up with plausible and surprising artistic formulations of these themes. With Break Down (2001), he became well known among a wider public: In a retail shop in London, he inventoried all objects he possessed at the time, only to destroy these within the frameworks of a regulated process. Landy concentrates on the function of art and artworks within society. The Museum Tinguely is presenting the artist's first retrospective exhibition. The accompanying catalog brings together works from 1990 to today and thus sheds light on his entire oeuvre to d
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Within the framework of Lavier’s conceptual studies, which he has been pursuing since the late 1960s, the artist resorts to carefully selecting elements from banal everyday life, pop culture or art history. These he covers with paint, places on pedestals or combines together, isolating familiar objects from their usual context, stripping them of their function and translating them into works of art. He calls his different thematic fields ‘construction sites’ (chantiers), working on them in parallel, continuously developing them. They all share his ironic approach, the undermining of traditional categories of art-historical classification and playful shifts therein.
The motifs that the artist uses in his body of works entitled Rues were made without any artistic or aesthetic pretensions at all: Lavier took photographs of shop windows in the streets of Paris that were, as is customary there, temporarily painted over with whiting by craftsmen owing to renovations. From the street you can only see the rough, carelessly applied brushstrokes, which Lavier (with an eye to Roy Lichtenstein’s subject) recognised and seized on as a cliché of modern painting. Avenue de Ségur(2010) is an inkjet print of such a photograph on canvas, which in turn, like a painting, is stretched on a fr
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Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Bertrand Lavier
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