In Your Face

Michael Landy

5 Sep 2008
18 Sep 2008

Gallery Paul Andriesse presents the work of Michael Landy (London, 1963) in a solo-exhibition of 30 portraits of family and friends of the artist. The portrait-series is an interesting slice of the English art world, because it includes portraits of gallery-owners and artists.

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Michael Landy, SELF-PORTRAIT #3, 2008, pencil on paper, 70 x 50 cm (detail) -

Michael Landy belongs to the Young British Artists. Landy first received international acclaim with his work Breakdown (2001), for which he destroyed all his possessions with a self-made machine. His early work is characterized by a critical attitude towards consumerist society, while his later work is more personal. In 2004 Landy presented Semi-Detached at the Tate Britain. The work was a replica of his paternal house and its decay symbolized his father, who was chained to the house because of an accident.

The exhibition In Your Face consists of a new series of drawings by Landy and is on show until October 18 at the Gallery Paul Andriesse from Tuesday-Friday 11:00-18:00, on Saturdays from 14:00-18:00 and every first Sunday of the month 14:00-17:00.