| Concept: Michael Landy's print
is available in green, yellow, orange and pink, screenprinted
over the whole sheet surface. In imitation of the handwritten
signs on Day-Glo card to advertise market stalls, the print has
been laminated in protective plastic and crudely overwritten
in black marker pen. Landy's 1992 installation "Closing
Down Sale", comprised shopping trolleys filled with defunct
objects labelled "bargains", a taped commentary encouraging
visitors to buy, and signs announcing a closing down sale. The
work was a critique of the commodification of art in the eighties
and its subsequent hard recession. It inevitably raises questions
about the true value of art. |
