THE INDEPENDENT
By Adrian Hamilton
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| ‘Multi-Saint’ (2013) |
UNITED KINGDOM---YBA Michael Landy’s show Saints Alive at the National Gallery draws on details of the torture of the martyrs represented in masterpieces of the Renaissance. It was always going to be a marriage made in Heaven or Hell, depending on your theological view or artistic expectation. Certainly the National Gallery took a chance when it invited
Michael Landy, a founding face of the YBAs (
Young British Artists), to become an associate artist and to mount a show of the resulting works at the end of his two-year stint.
Michael Landy: Saints Alive, National Gallery, London WC2 (020 7747 2885) 23 May to 24 November [
link]
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| ‘Chest Beater’ (2012) |
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