On a visit to the National Gallery, Garageland reviewer Bethany Pope notices a peculiar change befall the viewers of Michael Landy's self-flagellating saints.
Saints Alive by Michael Landy is an astonishing mixture of the new and the
old. The theme is startlingly appropriate for an artist who made his first mark
with a work centered around a saint-like rejection of material
goods, his startling performance piece Breakdown (2001).
Michael Landy gathered all of his belongings together, from furniture and books
to birth certificate, piled them into a pyre, and set them alight – a visible rejection
of the consumerist world. One could view this accessible National Gallery piece
as a natural continuance of that theme.
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| Saint Apollonia, 2013 |
