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Michael Landy RA (born 1963) is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is best known for the performance piece installation ''Break Down'' (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the ''Art Bin'' project at the South London Gallery. On 29 May 2008, Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. ==Early life and works== Landy was born in London. He first studied art in Loughton and Loughborough, then at Goldsmiths College in London, having been inspired to take up art professionally after having a picture selected for display on the BBC television art program Take Hart. After graduating from Goldsmiths in 1988, he exhibited in the ''Freeze'' exhibition, organised by Damien Hirst — an exhibition which first brought together a group of artists that would later become known as the YBAs. In 1990, Landy exhibited in East Country Yard with several of the artists from ''Freeze''. His first solo exhibition was ''Market'' (1990), an installation comprising numerous empty market stalls. Like much of his later work it was intended as a comment on consumerism and society. In 1992, Landy started an association with Karsten Schubert by making ''Closing Down Sale'' for his gallery, an installation made up of a number of objects in shopping trolleys labelled "BARGAIN" and recorded announcements encouraging visitors to buy. The work was intended as a comment on the commodification of art, and might be seen as a precursor of sorts to ''Break Down'', a work which produced no saleable objects, except an edition of inventories (books) listing all destroyed items. Before ''Break Down'' Landy's best-known work was ''Scrapheap Services'' (1995–1996), which featured a fictitious cleaning company which sought to change society by way of "a minority of people being discarded". Promotional videos were made for the company and a large number of cut-out men were made from old magazines to be swept up and destroyed. This installation typifies the YBAs' interests in transforming the mundane into art, and recontextualisaion. Its visual impact on one level is a typical industrial event, yet the gallery environment and bright red figures, along with the sinister irony of the title, is intended to force the viewer to address issues of humanity and consumerism. In 1997, work which Landy had previously sold to Charles Saatchi was included in the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. This show later toured Berlin and New York, but Landy's work was somewhat overshadowed by some of the other more outrageous artworks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Landy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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