Michael Landy: Art Bin, South London Gallery

Proof: modern art really is rubbish in a new installation

by Fisun GunerMonday, 01 February 2010

Assistants despatch works into the Art BinPhoto credit: Naomi Pearce

Michael Landy, the artist who destroyed literally everything he owned in his 2001 Artangel project Break Down - birth certificate, Saab, treasured family photos, shirt off his back - finally followed that project up with another exercise in destruction, this time resulting in headlines too tempting, and way too satisfying, to resist: Modern Art is Rubbish.

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