British artist Michael Landy works with concepts of destruction and rebirth. His most famous installation, Break Down, was an ad hoc factory that systematically recorded and then destroyed all of the artist's possessions. For his debut show with Sydney's Sherman Galleries, Landy presents a series of large-scale oil stick drawings depicting Jean Tinguely's 1960 sculpture Homage to New York in roughly executed black-and-white silhouette views. Landy ironically comments on his own practice and uses Tinguely's machine — a sculpture that was designed to self-destruct but didn't — as a metaphor for his own, more successful, experiments in annihilation and recreation.

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