A Man Who Destroyed All His
One day in the ‘90s the British artist Michael Landy Blank 1 Вопрос 1came up with extraordinary one-off art project. He decided to destroy every single one of his Blank 2 Вопрос 1possessions in public. During two weeks, every single item
of his Blank 3 Вопрос 1huge collection – clothes, love letters, artworks, his Saab 900 Turbo car, even his father’s Blank 4 Вопрос 1sheepskin coat – was
stripped, shredded, dismantled and Blank 5 Вопрос 1granulated by Landy and his 12 assistants, while listening to
David. When they had finished, the artist owned nothing at all, apart from the
blue boiler suit he had been wearing. Fifteen years on, Break Down was
considered a provocative masterpiece of recent British art. Moreover, because
consumerism in the West has only accelerated since 2001 it was one of the first
acts against Blank 6 Вопрос 1materialistic idols of the world. At the time, though, the reaction
to Break Down was ambivalent. Michael parted with everything he could Blank 7 Вопрос 1live without in a former Dutch
fashion shopping center
on Oxford Street. Landy said it was the perfect place because it was a place
where people go to consume, the “mecca of consumerism” in Britain. But as
observers watched Landy’s possessions are crushed Blank 8 Вопрос 1latest gadgets , were “deeply unsettled – and
sometimes appalled”. James Lingwood, who commissioned
Break Down replied that it was not very difficult, for many people, to witness
the destruction of household objects such as crockery. But to see how personal
mementoes are teared by Blank 9 Вопрос 1shredding machine or the Blank 10 Вопрос 1on conveyor belt are smased on the mechanised rollers –
that is deeply disturbing.
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