Jennifer Sliwka

-Published to accompany the exhibition Visions of Paradise, The National Gallery, London, 4 November 2015--14 February 2016---Colophon.

Botticini's Palmieri Altarpiece

Visions of Paradise

National Gallery (Great Britain)

Richard Cork

Colin Wiggins

Michael Landy

British artist Michael Landy (b. 1963) is known primarily as an installation artist. His work, along with others associated with the Young British Artists (YBAs), was first catapulted to the world spotlight when it was featured in the notorious Sensation exhibition (1997). His sculptural installations and performances explore political and social themes, such as the nature of consumerism and commodity. In 2009, Landy began a three-year artist residency at the National Gallery, London. He chose to focus his project on representations of saints and their accompanying stories, often gruesome, which were once part of common culture but are now largely unknown. Landy's preoccupation with recycling narratives and repurposing imagery results in Saints Alive, the subject of this book, conceived to include drawings, collages, and a series of kinetic, interactive sculptures with moving parts and sounds.

Jennifer Sliwka

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