THE TELEGRAPH
By Christy Harvey
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Michael Landy's 9ft kinetic sculpture of
St Apollonia inspired by 1506 painting by Lucas Cranach |
UNITED KINGDOM---Visitors to the National Gallery are in for a shock. At its entrance, they will be greeted by
St Apollonia – nine feet tall and made of fibre glass. Her pleated red dress will identify her as the sculptural incarnation of a figure painted by Lucas Cranach in 1506, in a work held elsewhere in the gallery. In her hands a pair of pliers will grip one of the teeth that were pulled out as she was tortured to death by an anti-Christian mob in the third century. This is the work of
Michael Landy, the National Gallery’s current artist in residence. [
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| Lucas Cranach's Saints Genevieve and Apollonia (1506) from the National Gallery collection |
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