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Michael Landy, Market, 1990
Michael Landy, Market, 1990
Michael Landy, Market, 1990
Michael Landy, Market, 1990

Michael Landy

Market, 1990
installation view, Building One, London
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The Market instillation bears resemblance to a real indoor market setting, with Sunblest crates stacked and covered in artificial grass and steel armature to create the structures of the market...
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The Market instillation bears resemblance to a real indoor market setting, with Sunblest crates stacked and covered in artificial grass and steel armature to create the structures of the market stalls. All stands are intermittently placed, as if it could be occupied with people and used as a real market.

The arrangement and heights of the crates and stands are reconstructed based on direct observations Landy has made of market stall, applying logic to the clusters in their final arrangement in what initially appears to be an abstracted arrangement.

There is a lack of permanence to the instillation, as the crates are not fixed down and an urban aesthetic with a sense of realism based on Landy s intense observation of market places. Commercial, non-art objects are constructed into an instillation where they can only be understood as art as it is not the intention of Landy to mimic reality, but to base the instillation on facts on the appearance of the contemporary world.
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