Michael Landy gets creatively destructive in Basel’s Tinguely Museum

Michael Landy has been making art from, and about, the kind of stuff that most people take for granted ever since he graduated from Goldsmiths in London in 1988, where he showed crocodile-clipped tarpaulin sheets in the now legendary Freeze exhibition, organised by fellow student Damien Hirst.Disposal and human detritus lie at the heart of Landys two best-known projects: the epic Scrapheap Services (1996), in which he created an entire services industry to rid society of untidy realities,