- Artwork Details: 59.8 x 84cm
- Edition:
- Material description: correction fluid on paper
- Credit line: © the artist. Acquired with funds from the McLaren Art Foundation, in association with Outset Contemporary Art Fund.
- Theme:
- Medium: Drawing
- Accession number: ACC18/2006
H.2.N.Y. Three Piano Notes
2006
Landy, Michael
This work is part of a series of drawings, made with correction fluid, based on photographic records of a performance by the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925– 1991). The performance, Homage to New York, was staged in 1960 in the garden of MOMA, New York. Tinguely’s construction self-destructed as part of the performance, and now exists only through some fragments and photographic records. Having first encountered Tinguely’s work at the Tate retrospective in 1982 while still a student, Michael Landy has been intrigued by his work for many years, and investigated the possibility of re-staging the Homage to New York event.
He undertook research at the Tinguely Museum in Basel and MOMA, New York, and studied the possibility through his drawings.