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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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Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Bertrand Lavier
Bertrand Lavier (b. 1949) counts among the most formative figures in the development of French art since the late 1970s. He finds the subject of his work in the dynamic context between high culture and pop culture. His oeuvre is intelligent and original, visually attractive and possessed of subtle wit. Lavier gained international fame with his paintings on pictures and objects and with his »Superpositions,« works created by setting objects from the world of commodities on top of each other. Over the years Lavier has begun a number of other groups of works, that he develops in parallel on an ongoing basis. He refers to these projects as »construction sites«, thus emphasizing their nature as works in progress. By deploying a wide range of materials and techniques, the aim is to achieve a finely balanced combination of various genres of art: painting with photography, painting with object, sculpture with object, object with photography, object with sculpture, design with sculpture. Despite frequent references to key works from the history of art, Lavier works in a broader field of visual and intellectual cultural anthropology. His work is hence of particular significance for the development of art over th
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