Market Day John Tweddle ★ Michael Landy

Market Day: John Tweddle ★ Michael Landy is a gallery exhibition pairing the sculpture 'Costermonger stall no. 3, 1991' by Michael Landy with paintings John Tweddle made in New York between 1966 and 1972, from the Scull collection. Made a generation apart, the works share the market as a subject and its effects: Landy's flower barrow, dressed with lights and flowers without its keeper, is a monument to street trade at the moment of its disappearance, while Tweddle's paintings, crowded with dollar signs, trucks and snakes, record his unease at watching his own work become a commodity. Tweddle (1938-2022) drew on comics, cartoons and folk decoration to examine capitalism and the commodification of art, before withdrawing from the art world entirely by 1980. Landy (b. 1963, London), a Goldsmiths graduate who took part in the 1988 exhibition Freeze, is known for installations on consumerism such as Market (1990) and Break Down (2001), in which he destroyed all 7,227 of his possessions.