Kinetic Martyrdom

Name: Michael Landy (b. 1963)
Brand: Kinetic Martyrdom
Price: 5000.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 6,250

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Closed: 20 Sep 2018

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Michael Landy (b. 1963)

Kinetic Martyrdom

Price Realised GBP 6,250

Closed: 20 Sep 2018

Price Realised GBP 6,250

Closed: 20 Sep 2018

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Michael Landy (b. 1963)
Kinetic Martyrdom

printed paper collage on paper
59⅝ x 47¼in. (151.5 x 121cm.)
Executed in 2013

Anon. sale, Christie's London, 26 June 2013, lot 242 (donated by the artist).
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

London, The National Gallery, Michael Landy: Saints Alive, 2013.

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Lot Essay

Created during his residency at The National Gallery and exhibited in the ensuing exhibition Michael Landy’s , 2013 is a delicate collage of saintly imagery. Landy is inspired by Renaissance artists such as Carlo Crivelli and Lucas Cranach the Elder among others, and these works explore the disjointed way saints’ bodies emphasized, what critic Laura Cumming called ‘a votive limb, a disembodied yet ever-beating heart’ (L. Cumming, ‘Michael Landy: Saints Alive – review’, May 25, 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/may/26/michael-landy-saints-alive-national-review). Evoking both Surrealism’s exquisite corpses as well as Victorian collage, is a striking exploration of figuration, an evanescent yet fragmentary body set against a halo of white paper.
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