Michael Landy is a contemporary, sculptural artist. In 2001, he created a piece of work which was commissioned by Artangel and The Times. It was entitled Break down and was created in a former C&A store in Oxford Street, London.
Landy -“I had all this stuff – a lovely Saab 900 car, a nice Richard James suit – and I thought, ‘How can I mess it up for myself?’ That was the moment I decided to destroy all my worldly goods. “As a child I’d always been into taking things apart so I could see how they were put together. I call it an examination of ‘consumerism’”.
Landy used his machine for a different approach. His work was more commercial, it was large scale but more practical, it was built for one use only, destroying his objects. Landy’s work is there to tell a story, which differs from my own.
This is a clip taken from the kinetic work ‘Bussola’ by Jennifer Townley. Jennifer has used an electric motor, like myself to make an intricate skeletal looking set of steel objects move. The way they interact makes them look like waves, this movement is very solid and fluid which is contrasting to my work, this has a very crisp feel and finish to it which for me finishes the piece nicely. I think the slow movement is the key to this piece the pace is key to showing the beauty of the work, it’s very hypnotic. I think i can take this information and try and attribute it to my own.
The plan is to create individual stations so they can eventually be connected via the strings which will make them all correspond to one another. Having individual stations also makes the art easier to manage and move if needed. The only difficulty is in getting them all to connect as they wont be all lined up linearly as was my previous work.
http://www.jontyhurwitz.com/nano/
I happened to come across the Artist Jonty Hurwitz who is uses science to create the worlds smallest sculpture. This really appealed to me.
Tinguely and Michael Landy both included oddities into their works such as skulls, umbrellas etc and i thought after breaking this mug i would put it back together and use it as well.
