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Michael Landy (B. 1953)
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Michael Landy (B. 1953)

Kinetic Martyrdom

Closed26 June 2013

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GBP 12,500

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Michael Landy (B. 1953)
Kinetic Martyrdom
paper collage on paper
60 x 47¾in. (152.5 x 121.5cm.)
Executed in 2013

Donated directly by the artist, courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery, London.

Specialist note

'I suppose what I'm really doing - taking body parts from the painting in the Gallery and kind of putting them back together again - is not unlike what happened to saints' bodies in the past. After all, saints got dug up, and different churches took bits of them away, exhibited them and made them into reliquaries'
(M. Landy, quoted in Michael Landy, exh. cat., The National Gallery, London, 2013, p. 52).