{"id":446,"date":"2025-11-17T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:19:00","slug":"mark-leckey-i-didnt-get-into-art-to-find-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Mark Leckey: \u201cI Didn\u2019t Get Into Art to Find Safety\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/16791\/mark-leckey-interview-guggenheim-bilbao-fiorucci-made-me-hardcore?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=mark-leckey-i-didn-t-get-into-art-to-find-safety\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467064.jpg\" alt=\"And the City Stood Still in Its Brightness by Mark Leckey\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Leckey<\/strong><span> makes magic of contemporary life. Since the late 1980s, the British artist\u2019s stirring installations have channelled the power of music and pop culture, often using found video footage.<\/span><span> His early works are a prophetic precursor to the internet\u2019s mash-up mentality. Moving through analogue to digital editing techniques, he has maintained a keen curiosity about our accelerating online realm. <\/span><span>There is also a rich spirituality in hishellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/16791\/mark-leckey-interview-guggenheim-bilbao-fiorucci-made-me-hardcore?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=mark-leckey-i-didn-t-get-into-art-to-find-safety\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14431\/and-the-city-stood-still-in-its-brightness-by-mark-leckey\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=mark-leckey-i-didn-t-get-into-art-to-find-safety\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-82-1200-800\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467064.jpg\" alt=\"And the City Stood Still in Its Brightness by Mark Leckey\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14431\/and-the-city-stood-still-in-its-brightness-by-mark-leckey\/1?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=mark-leckey-i-didn-t-get-into-art-to-find-safety\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-40-1200-800\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467057.jpg\" alt=\"And the City Stood Still in Its Brightness by Mark Leckey\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14431\/and-the-city-stood-still-in-its-brightness-by-mark-leckey\/2?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=mark-leckey-i-didn-t-get-into-art-to-find-safety\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-1200-800\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467058.jpg\" alt=\"And the City Stood Still in Its Brightness by Mark Leckey\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14431\/and-the-city-stood-still-in-its-brightness-by-mark-leckey\/3?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=mark-leckey-i-didn-t-get-into-art-to-find-safety\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-44-1200-800\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467060.jpg\" alt=\"And the City Stood Still in Its Brightness by Mark Leckey\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14431\/and-the-city-stood-still-in-its-brightness-by-mark-leckey\/4?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=mark-leckey-i-didn-t-get-into-art-to-find-safety\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-347-678-452\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467061.jpg\" alt=\"And the City Stood Still in Its Brightness by Mark Leckey\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14431\/and-the-city-stood-still-in-its-brightness-by-mark-leckey\/5?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=mark-leckey-i-didn-t-get-into-art-to-find-safety\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-845-2250-1500\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467065.jpeg\" alt=\"And the City Stood Still in Its Brightness by Mark Leckey\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14431\/and-the-city-stood-still-in-its-brightness-by-mark-leckey\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=mark-leckey-i-didn-t-get-into-art-to-find-safety\">View Gallery (8 images)<\/a>nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Leckey makes magic of contemporary life. Since the late 1980s, the British artist\u2019s stirring installations have channelled the power of music and pop culture, often using found video footage. His early works are a prophetic precursor to the internet\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}