Christian Marclay’s captivating work, ‘The Clock’ has been on view at Contemporary Galleries of the MOMA. Winner of the 2011 Venice Biennale’s the Golden Lion award, Marclay has produced this amazing cinematic tour de force, which unfolds on the screen all in real time via countless of film excerpts, forming a 24-hour montage.
The versatile polymath composer, video artist, collagist, and pioneer turntablist has put together an amazing assemblage of time-related movie moments, which debuted in London in 2010. He has brought together uncountable of clips from the whole history of cinema, right from silent films to the present era. Each happens to feature an exact time on a clock, on a watch, or in dialogue.
It’s a hypnotic and spectacular 24-hour work of video art created by renowned artist Christian Marclay. He also composed the soundscape, ably driven by a swelling and racing symphony of ringing, ticking, footsteps, laughter, tears, and music. The captivating collage that results out of the masterly weaving of audio-visual elements narrates the accurate time, transforming it both an artwork and a working timepiece - a sort of cinematic memento mori.
Already a popular classic, the work is also a fabulous functioning timepiece – a highly elaborate, rhythmic musical composition; a meditation on time as an inescapable aspect of everyday life and cinematic artifice; apart from a highly compressed, peripatetic history of both film and film styles. It demonstrates how existing artworks - in this instance films – act as raw material for new ones. The real ultimate validation of appropriation art, it counts off the minutes meticulously employing tiny segments from literally thousands of films.
One notices bits of ‘Gone With the Wind’, ‘Laura’, ‘High Noon’, ‘The Godfather’, ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘On the Waterfront’, speeding past, mixed with silent films and those less familiar foreign ones.
The New York city got a glimpse of a spellbinding, precise time-telling 24-hour wonder of sound and film montage last year. ‘The Clock’ had come to Lincoln Center after being featured at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Hayward Gallery at London’s Southbank Centre.
The versatile polymath composer, video artist, collagist, and pioneer turntablist has put together an amazing assemblage of time-related movie moments, which debuted in London in 2010. He has brought together uncountable of clips from the whole history of cinema, right from silent films to the present era. Each happens to feature an exact time on a clock, on a watch, or in dialogue.
It’s a hypnotic and spectacular 24-hour work of video art created by renowned artist Christian Marclay. He also composed the soundscape, ably driven by a swelling and racing symphony of ringing, ticking, footsteps, laughter, tears, and music. The captivating collage that results out of the masterly weaving of audio-visual elements narrates the accurate time, transforming it both an artwork and a working timepiece - a sort of cinematic memento mori.
Already a popular classic, the work is also a fabulous functioning timepiece – a highly elaborate, rhythmic musical composition; a meditation on time as an inescapable aspect of everyday life and cinematic artifice; apart from a highly compressed, peripatetic history of both film and film styles. It demonstrates how existing artworks - in this instance films – act as raw material for new ones. The real ultimate validation of appropriation art, it counts off the minutes meticulously employing tiny segments from literally thousands of films.
One notices bits of ‘Gone With the Wind’, ‘Laura’, ‘High Noon’, ‘The Godfather’, ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘On the Waterfront’, speeding past, mixed with silent films and those less familiar foreign ones.
The New York city got a glimpse of a spellbinding, precise time-telling 24-hour wonder of sound and film montage last year. ‘The Clock’ had come to Lincoln Center after being featured at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Hayward Gallery at London’s Southbank Centre.
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