By Phillip Maughan
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| Saint Catherine: the original painting that inspired Landy's kinetic sculpture. |
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Michael Landy's Saints Alive: Bloody Carnage Brought to Life and Mechanised
Posted on 12:07 by the great khali
NEW STATESMAN
By Phillip Maughan
UNITED KINGDOM---St Catherine was a bookish child from Alexandria, who held her own against the fifty pagan scholars sent to debate with her by Emperor Maximus in 305. Enraged, Maximus ordered that the scholars be burned alive and Catherine torn apart on a spiked wheel. When she touched the instrument of her destruction, the wheel exploded and splinters flew into the assembled mob. She was immediately beheaded and her body was carried to Mount Sinai by angels. St Catherine is among the many saints who have sprung to life at the National Gallery’s new exhibition Saints Alive: a junk shop assortment of limbs, cogs and torture devices devised by “Young British Artist” Michael Landy. [link]
By Phillip Maughan
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