Michael Landy is a contemporary, sculptural artist. In 2001, he created a piece of work which was commissioned by Artangel and The Times. It was entitled Break down and was created in a former C&A store in Oxford Street, London.
Landy -“I had all this stuff – a lovely Saab 900 car, a nice Richard James suit – and I thought, ‘How can I mess it up for myself?’ That was the moment I decided to destroy all my worldly goods. “As a child I’d always been into taking things apart so I could see how they were put together. I call it an examination of ‘consumerism’”.
Landy used his machine for a different approach. His work was more commercial, it was large scale but more practical, it was built for one use only, destroying his objects. Landy’s work is there to tell a story, which differs from my own.
