Art
Michael Landy
South London Gallery

3/14/2010
65 Peckham Rd. SE5 8UH
020.7703.6120
Tube: Oval



Free

Tue to Sun 12 - 6pm
Michael Landy has constructed a giant perspex container, or Art Bin, for his new show, where anyone can fill out a form and offer their work up for disposal. Landy acts as judge, jury and executioner to the creative failures of those artists who have entered. The exhibition gives equal visibility to the apparent free-for-all content deemed worthy of chucking away, displayed in the 600 metres cubed container in the gallery, and to the selection process for the work, visually reflected on the gallery floor in the three man strong panel of Landy and his team. This is not just a public exercise in the relative value of taste but a public airing of the drive behind the contemporary art market and the galleries, dealers and artists that steer it. From the man who famously destroyed everything he owned, Landy's success as an artist lies in the scale of his ambition. The "exaggerated gesture" that lies at the heart of his work applies the same prosaic eye to his subjects. Whether it be consumerism or the art market, nothing escapes derision.

NB: runs till 14/03.

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Talk / Reading | 9/27/2010
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Talk / Film | 9/8/2010 till 9/16/2010
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Concert | 10/28/2010
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Film | 8/27/2010 till 9/29/2010
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