The notion of traditional value, of commodities, is still being undermined or subverted in the art world. Trusting the process he does not worry too much about destroying the records and album covers. They have this great new director, who is pushing the ensemble to try different things, less notated music. Most of my work has been very low tech. CM There is so much money involved—that’s why Disney is not ready to understand that Mickey mouse belongs to everybody. In the ’90s I presented him at The Kitchen, where I was music curator. He did exactly the same thing with artwork. I also had some technical advisers. I edited it here using Final Cut Pro, It took an enormous amount of time. Christian Marclay. CM This is something I’ve thought a lot about: What happens to this video piece in ten years when the DVD technology is outdated? His most recent works have the same energy, and the artist continues to mix music and illustration, sculpture and photography altogether. Toutefois, par delà leur singularité, certains artistes incarnent ce que pourrait être une démarche contemporaine de création. When he makes films he finds short sequences that can be blended into the perfection with the ability to tell the honest story. BN It was very successful. For one thing I rarely travel for music now, because I’m busy with my visual work. The physical display is important in order to appreciate the work, because you need that perceptual space between the four sources of sound and image. And so, slowly, out of this kind of activity, I became more and more interested in music. Entre 1977 et 1980, Marclay étudie à l’École Supérieure d'Art Visuel de Genève et la sculpture à l’université d’art du … They are as much a part of life as anything else. The Clock from 2010, was made over the period of three years and it took much-disciplined work, effort and dedication to put together scenes where people look at their watches, or where clocks show the time, and it is synched to the real time. Album Covers Collages by Christian Marclay. His mother was American so he held a double nationality. Untitled. And sampling has been around for a long time, but digital sampling allows for more flexibility and immediacy. —Ben Neill is a composer, performer and designer of the mutantrumpet, a computer-interactive instrument. We breathe in this stuff; why shouldn’t it come out transformed? BN Well, whereas musicians are more compelled to record music, because that’s their only object, you’re also creating visual work, visual objects. by Betsy Sussler, Sally Gall’s Subterranea The collages were his favorite medium and they still are. Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. CM But that was live. Think back to the 19th century, to Wagner, to Scriabin. Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. I’ve always done so many different things. BN Going back to the dj thing. He made a self-stick record label with his name on it, stuck it on all kinds of records and called it his music. People didn’t have the same relationship to the vinyl record. BN Did you set any conceptual limits while making Video Quartet? CM It was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, in Luxembourg. Il a étudié à l’École Supérieure d’Art Visuel de Genève (1975-1977). There are many antecedents to hip-hop, like ’50s Musique Concrète, and before that, all kinds of experiments were made with records. Video is not really an object. Anyway, I thought of the bell, and then I remembered Duchamp’s Large Glass, which I always went to see when in Philly, and it’s broken as well. Installation view, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. BN So the fact that a piece like that ultimately just exists as information doesn’t bother you? Based in France the French-language publication is part of a network of titles founded by Umberto Allemandi with editions in Italian, English, Russian, Chinese and Greek. The idea of the uniqueness of the object belonging to one person is being challenged, and I find that really great—more people will end up seeing the work. It also brings out the constructedness of sound, which, as you said, is so dependent on machines now. Entre 1977 et 1980, Marclay étudie à l’École Supérieure d'Art Visuel de Genève et la sculpture à l’université d’art du … Music has such an intimate connection with technology. He performed live, but didn't play any instrument. A l’intersection des arts visuels et du son, le travail Christian Marclay se concentre, depuis la fin des années 70, sur les connections entre musique, objets, films, et images. 1991. But this was a crowd-pleaser. CM Yes, and we all learned from each other. Christian Marclay / Todd-White Art Photography / Courtesy Courtesy White Cube, London and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York CM I was recently looking back at some old datebooks and realized that in the early ’80s I was performing several times a week. What brought that about? I came to New York in 1977, as a visiting student at Cooper Union, and I spent a lot of time on the club scene. Unfortunately those two huge projects are happening simultaneously. He created montages of clips to form new narratives and multiple-screen projections. The minimalist repetitive music in the ’70s predated the sequencer. Untitled. You have to know something about how to put your sound down on the recording and what distinguishes that sound, even if you’re an instrumentalist. At the moment I’m also working on a survey exhibition of my work at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, which opens June 1. BOMB includes a quarterly print magazine, a daily online publication, and a digital archive of its previously published content from 1981 onward. Durée : 24 heures. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others. Moholy-Nagy at the Bauhaus, for instance, experimented with drawing grooves directly on the disc. The clips included in Video Quartet, which Christian Marclay edited in his New York studio using the software programme Final Cut Pro, are taken mainly from Hollywood feature films, both colour and black and white productions. Really interesting art leads the way, points technology in the direction it needs to go, or should go. Mar 11, 2019 - Over the past 35 years, Christian Marclay has explored the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into a visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography and video. In general, do you ever have to deal with any legal issues about appropriation? Ben Neill Christian, you are one of the few artists I can think of who have had a very active career in both the visual arts and music. You started out in the visual arts, right? But you didn’t have the same kind of background as the other players who were involved in that scene. He won a Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennale as the best artist for this film. CM The technology is still not ideal. Marclay was born in California and he grew up in Switzerland, where he attended the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva and later continued his education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Cooper Union in New York. Les équivalents formels entre le temps et la musique deviennent sensibles et The Clock devient une œuvre musicale, nous rendant captifs de ses sonorités qui se … I’m having a lot of fun with this project. ‘John Armleder: Spoons, moons and masks’ runs at the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA, until 27 October. Christian Marclay (American, b.1955) is a sculptor, video artist, and musician. Punk rock music was also very important to my development. They had taken on a retro quality. The family moved to Geneva, and Marclay grew up speaking French and English, attending art … It’s rarely for ethical reasons that people sue each other. As a performer and sound artist Christian Marclay has been experimenting, composing and performing with phonograph records and turntables since 1979 to create his unique "theater of found sound." That’s where the records came from. Christian Marclay « Scream »Biennale d'Art de Venise 2019 Christian Marclay, Scream (Split Center) Christian Marclay, né en 1955 aux États-Unis, vit et travaille à Londres et à New York. They were working with tape loops, but that was essentially sequenced music. by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, John Haskell’s I am not Jackson Pollock The time-based aspect of sound is a vocabulary that is similar to programming. CM Again, it has to do with technology. Early life and education. Christian Marclay, in full Christian Ernest Marclay, (born January 11, 1955, San Rafael, California, U.S.), Swiss American visual artist and composer whose multidisciplinary work encompassed performance, sculpture, and video. The busier I am in both fields at once, the harder it is. His blend of perceptive information is not without sense and meaning, and what he does is deeply influenced by desire to show how human receptor system can be manipulated and changed, how we do not have to react every single time in the same way, out of the habit, that we can sink into what we see and hear and find a whole new way to enjoy the art. Installation view, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It’s a simple shot, cheap, based on a jump-cut edit, with which we are familiar and which we accept. BN Although in No Salesman Will Call, the piece you did with Perry Hoberman in the late ’80s, you guys did some stuff very close to that. With video they are becoming more and more of an indivisible unit, unlike cinema, which is all about postproduction and folley sounds. For one thing I rarely travel for music now, because I’m busy with my visual work. 1991 | MoMA. “I’ve always been interested in how sound is visualized,” he explains. It can even be shown in two places at the same time; it’s not an issue, because you can make an exhibition copy. But improvisation was always a big part of it. Christian Marclay (b. Do you think sampling is inherently ironic? Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present new work by Christian Marclay, incorporating collage, video animation, and photography.The exhibition continues Marclay’s investigation into the relationship between sound and image through sampling elements from art and popular culture, and reflects the anxiety and frustration of the current global pandemic and political crises. Some guy attacked it a couple of years ago. His intention was to develop a more personal relationship with the sound. Another clever art form is coming, that is album cover art. How did you decide where you were going to get the material? In his performances words pop out on the screen, musicians play music like they would usually do in the concert gallery, and the noise travels from ear lobes to the nervous system, transmitting the data and the energy. BOMB's Oral History Project is dedicated to collecting, documenting, and preserving the stories of distinguished visual artists of the African Diaspora. Mar 11, 2019 - Over the past 35 years, Christian Marclay has explored the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into a visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography and video. A la fois musicien et plasticien, il utilise le son comme matériau de création et cherche à lui donner forme à travers différents médias. Resourceful and imaginative, Marclay got the idea of using mixed LP sound, played in a loop in a repetitive manner as a replacement for a missing drummer he never managed to recruit for his band. The video will play as part of the exhibition, which also includes some Duchamp artifacts from the Philadelphia Museum’s collection and an assortment of glass Liberty Bells, souvenirs that I’ve found in collections in Philadelphia and bought on eBay. BN It’s like playing an instrument—you have to practice. Our vocabulary is very limited and words can never be thoughts, and with this pushing the envelope attitude Marclay expands our capabilities of comprehension. Marclay was born in California and he grew up in Switzerland, where he attended the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva and later continued his education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Cooper Union in New York. This belief in untrained musicians also came out of the punk aesthetic. CM That changed everything. I had an assistant to help with research and pick up tapes from video rental stores. Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. Christian Marclay’s works are made from objects, images, and sounds that already exist, which he appropriates and manipulates. Christian Marclay, Video Quartet, 2002, four-channel digital projection with sound, 8 x 40 feet overall. Nothing found—try broadening your search. During the ’80s I was also involved with a few bands, The Bachelors, Even, and Mon Ton Son, and Dense Band with David Moss, which were more rehearsed and structured. Stills of Christian Marclay – Telephones, 1995, video installati… But the actual, physical objects are just storage for data. In his work, music can be both seen and heard. Christian Marclay | Rachel's ARTS 104 Blog. Extrait de The Clock de Christian Marclay (2010). So you constantly have to change tracks to see, or create mini renderings of the project. When it comes to painting or some other form of art, the idea is to preserve the piece so it maintains its value. They didn’t really look at what was happening. Okay, this is where I’m placing my bet. Acquise conjointement par le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada et le Museum of Fine Arts, Boston For more than thirty years, Marclay has explored the relationship between the visual and the audible through a variety of media, including sculpture, video, performance, collage, and music. “I’ve always been interested in how sound is visualized,” he explains. In these newer pieces, you’re bringing the sound and visual elements together in a truly distinct way. CM You’re not exactly encouraged to touch it. Christian Marclay is a London and New York based visual artist and composer whose innovative work explores the juxtaposition between sound recording, photography, video and film. There is a visual element when performing in front of an audience. The founder of gelbe MUSIK, the renowned record store and gallery space, speaks about its history. Californien de naissance, Christian Marclay a grandi à Genève et y a étudié les beaux-arts. Christian Marclay, The Clock, 2010 Installation vidéo à canal unique. Legally it’s a little delicate, because I’m dealing with such iconic movies. Or were you exploring this stuff on your own? In legal terms it falls into the “fair use” category. They waited too long, and now they’re paying the price. It is a 24-hour film in which Marclay put together 1 minute long scenes, and when the clock shows time in the film, it also shows the exact time in the cinema. And Video Quartet is a four-screen cinematic experience that uses snippets of music-making scenes from movies to create a seamless audio-visual collage. CM I’m doing this fun project for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a commission from the Relâche Ensemble, from Philadelphia, who asked me to create a piece of music for them. Sometimes I’d find a great image, but the sound didn’t make sense in the context, or the other way around. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. I think the debate is good, because the sampling technology obviously will change the laws. What are you working on now? “I’ve always been interested in how sound is visualized,” he explains. View a wide Variety of artworks by Christian Marclay, now available for sale on artnet Auctions. On peut dire qu'il est dans la suite du travail du travail de John Cage, un conceptuel du sound art. I think art is a gamble, in a way. Christian Marclay l’utilise comme un liant, une symphonie de sonneries, tic-tac, pas, cris, rires, pleurs et musique. I first saw him perform in the early 1980s with John Zorn at Roulette and was instantly captivated by his bizarre dj technique. His mother was American so he held a double nationality. Neill has performed his music extensively in a wide variety of international settings. They knew they would get something strange from me. BN The problem with the editing software is that it gives you too many possibilities; you can do anything with it. He studied at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel […] View Christian Marclay’s 224 artworks on artnet. It’s actually going to be two videos, projected one on top of the other, mimicking the structure of the Large Glass, with the two domains of the Bride and the Bachelors. Christian Marclay is an American-Swiss artist known for his sculptures, videos, and music, especially his sound collages. He synchronized time on the clocks and watches on the screen with real time where the film was beeing watched and managed to give the audience the visual experience of such an abstract notion as time. Durée : 24 heures. For more than thirty years, Marclay has explored the relationship between the visual and the audible through a variety of media, including sculpture, video, performance, collage, and music. There is the evolution of technologies, and then there is the evolution of the aesthetics that go along with technologies. They came to music with a do-it-yourself attitude and were very successful. But I wanted to really consider these clips as readymade units of sound and image. But it was the beginning of a band that was very visual: we used films, slide projections and props. For the viewer it seems normal to jump cut from one actor in one space to another in a completely different space, or from one film to another. Now I’m relearning it all—I haven’t edited for almost a year. The dj as we know it really came out of hip-hop. You seemed to have a kind of determined concentration that was almost Zen—like no matter what kind of sounds you were creating. Watch Read Artists Search . composition and sheet: 39 x 39 1/16" (99 x 99.2 cm). Sincere music should not stay in the cardboard cover because sincere music can change the time, and feelings and leave the authentic impression. … CM Partly it comes out of the available technology. At first I just wanted to make a movie, a short experimental musical, to write songs for it and find someone to write the music. 1955) is known for his distinctive fusion of image and sound. By including the image with the sound, I make the source even more recognizable. Christian Marclay was born on January 11, 1955 in San Rafael, Marin County, California, to a Swiss father and an American mother and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. There were a few who were like me—Arto Lindsay, for instance, and Ikue Mori. In his Video Quartet from 2002, he put together scenes from Hollywood films where actors play instruments and make music, and he created a 13-minute long audio-visual experience that shows how authentic music looks like. Ingres et son violon attestent que rares sont les créateurs dont l'œuvre ressortit également à deux arts majeurs. The turntables added a visual dimension that was more real than background slide projections, which felt like an added element. The busier I am in both fields at once, the harder it is. CM I made a point to use the sounds that were attached to these images originally. There are so many ways to deal with quotation. I’m not very high tech. BN Were Cage’s ideas about found sound influential to you? The project evolved from being a commission for a music piece to being a show at the museum that will include an installation with video and a book. 18 June - 25 September 2022. Christian Marclay expose une installation Shake Rattle and Roll (Flumix) et une série de photographies déchirées d’un défilé en fanfare. Il s’est initié à la «scène» par l’intermédiaire de John Armleder et le groupe Écart, très proche de Fluxus. They’re intertwined. Do you know him? CM Yes, I never studied music. Recently I spoke with him at his studio in New York about his background, ideas and recent projects. If the soul and the ego were objects we could look at, the soul would be a translucent heart beating. CM The idea of repetition really comes out of tape recording. Marclay was born in the US to an American mother and a Swiss-French father. CM Quartet reveals the way in which music is made out of a collection of fragments. Christian Marclay; Christian Marclay Expositions Art 04-02-2021 > 07-03-2021 Kanal - Centre Pompidou. And it’s easier to bring sound into a museum or a gallery now. Christian Marclay. Are you planning to do more works like Quartet? CM Well, I don’t like to repeat myself. Did you have any legal problems about all the clips you use in Video Quartet? Christian Marclay : Turntablisme (mix et remix sur platines vinyles), composition et images sonores. Is created in the ’ 60s was fascinating to be able to perform. 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