Exhibition
Mark Landis, Emily (detail), 2010
THE LANDIS MUSEUM
Alex Impey, Alexandra Sukhareva, Bianca Baldi, Irina Gheorghe, Kapwani Kiwanga, Nina Liebenberg, Sarah Pierce
First Floor
The Pearce Institute, Glasgow
Glasgow International
20 April - 07 May 2018
Curator – James N Hutchinson
The Landis Museum is a ‘museum of the encounter.’ It is based on the methodology of Mark Landis, a man who – in late 2010 – became the subject of a number of international newspaper articles that characterised him as an art-world fraud, a forger who’d been fooling museums with fake paintings and drawings for the best part of twenty-five years. But such a characterisation is false, and it obscures what makes Landis’s work useful and interesting. The Landis Museum is a site for exploring the legacies of – or traces left by – moments of encounter, or generating central points through which new moments of encounter can be enacted.
Following its appearance in Glasgow International, The Landis Museum will begin a tour of the UK, in which host institutions will each construct a new ‘annex’ of the museum, adding new works by new artists.
This tour will begin at CCA Derry-Londonderry in the summer.
Supported by Glasgow International.
