Artist Michael Landy in conversation with Richard Calvocoressi 30 November 2013

Henry Moore Lecture Theatre, Leeds Art Gallery
5-6pm
Free

Join artist Michael Landy and Richard Calvocoressi (Director of The Henry Moore Foundation) discussing their mutual and longstanding fascination with the work of Jean Tinguely (1925–91). The talk will begin with a screening of Michael’s documentary film H2NY (Homage to New York). This event follows the Henry Moore Institute conference Pyrotechnic Sculpture and coincides with its exhibitions Dennis Oppenheim: Thought Collision Factories, Jean Tinguely: Spiral and Stephen Cripps: Pyrotechnic Sculptor.

Michael Landy is an artist who lives and works in London. He graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art in 1988, exhibiting at Freeze in the same year alongside the cohort that would come to be known as the Young British Artists. Landy’s work came to wider public attention in 2001 with Break Down, an installation in a former branch of C&A at Marble Arch, in which he catalogued and destroyed all of his possessions. He returned to this theme in 2010 with Art Bin at the South London Gallery, where the public were invited to dispose of their ‘failed’ artworks. Most recently, the exhibition Saints Alive displayed his engagement with the representation of saints in the permanent collection of the National Gallery through drawing, collage and a series of monumental kinetic sculptures.

Richard Calvocoressi has been Director of The Henry Moore Foundation since 2007. He was formerly Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh (1987-2007), where he acquired important international collections of dada and surrealist art from the estates of Roland Penrose and Gabrielle Keiller and was instrumental in attracting the Anthony d’Offay gift to Edinburgh and London. He recently co-curated the exhibition Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He has also organised exhibitions of, or published on, Georg Baselitz, Reg Butler, Lucian Freud, Anselm Kiefer, Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Klee, René Magritte, Lee Miller and Jean Tinguely. He is an expert member of the Comité Magritte, a member of the Francis Bacon Catalogue Raisonné Committee, a trustee of The Art Fund and a member of the U.K. government’s Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art. In 2008 he was awarded a CBE for services to the Arts, particularly in Scotland.

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