INFORMATION on Michael Landy

Michael Landy Saints Alive book  The National Gallery resource

He was born in Hackney and went to Goldsmiths University which is where I plan to go to in September and he is one of my favourite sculptors.

Landy paints, detailed drawings, designs sculptures that can be installations or interactive/ kinetic sculptures. My specialism is Design and my big interests are sculptures and the theme on body form.

I prefer and appreciate more are the old masters paintings that the National Gallery present and I was really happy to see Landy twist and creations he designed and then got made on the subject of religion.

He is a contemporary artist so it is strange that the gallery asked him of all people to create art to be exhibited there.
His practises are from traditional themes such as his detailed drawings, well observed from looking at the paintings throughout the gallery.
Michael studied the paints and characters that cropped up e.g. Mary and Jesus but started to respond by
using cut ups of the saints and objects that were in the paintings to creating surrealist collage - a modern apporiate to then become large 3 D interactive, kinetic sculptures.

The exhibition he did was called Saints Alive where I visited it, he had designed  sculptures that showed presenting religious figures (saints) and made their story and the saint come alive by making them able to move.