Christian Marclay
dal 20/12/2012 al 20/1/2013
Segnalato da
20/12/2012
Christian Marclay
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
Chronicling the hours and minutes of 24 hours, "The Clock" incorporates everything from car chases and boardrooms to emergency wards, bank heists, trysts, and high-noon shoot-outs. This cinematic tour de force unfolds in real time, forming an amazing montage of thousands of film clips appropriated from the last 100 years.
organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, with Martin Hartung, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art.
The Museum of Modern Art will show Christian Marclay’s
groundbreaking video installation The Clock (2010), from December 21, 2012, to January 21,
2013. Winner of the Golden Lion award at the 2011 Venice Biennale, The Clock is a cinematic tour
de force that unfolds on the screen in real time through thousands of film excerpts that form a 24-
hour montage. Appropriated from the last 100 years of cinema’s rich history, the film clips
chronicle the hours and minutes of the 24-hour period, often by displaying a watch or clock. From
the legendary to the obscure, The Clock incorporates scenes of car chases, board rooms,
emergency wards, bank heists, trysts, high noon shootouts, detective dramas, or silent comedies.
Christian Marclay—The Clock will be shown in the Museum’s Contemporary Galleries
during public hours throughout its run, and will be free with Museum admission. Admission to the
installation, which will seat 130 visitors, will be on a first-come, first-served basis, with no time
limits for viewers. On December 31, MoMA will present a special New Year’s Eve showing of the
work in its entirety, which will be the first opportunity for the public to view all 24 hours of the
piece at MoMA.
The Clock will also be shown in its entirety on three weekends: January 4 and 5, January
11 and 12, and January 18 and 19. The Museum's Contemporary Galleries will also remain open
during all of the after-hours screenings.
Beginning December 21, the Museum will provide updates on visiting The Clock, including
live updates on the queue, via MoMA.org and MoMA’s Twitter account, @MuseumModernArt.
Christian Marclay—The Clock is organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, with
Martin Hartung, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art. The Clock was
acquired by MoMA in 2011 as a promised gift from the collection of Jill and Peter Kraus.
About Christian Marclay:
Born in California in 1955 and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, where he attended the École
Supérieure d'Art Visuel, Christian Marclay moved to Boston and graduated from the Massachusetts
College of Art. Known as a pioneer of the use of gramophone records and turntables as musical
instruments to create sound collages, Marclay has inventively 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. Creating The Clock took three intensive
years of research with the support of six assistants.
Major support for the exhibition is provided by Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann.
Additional funding is provided by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art and by Marlene Meyerson.
Image: Detail of The Clock. 2010. Single-channel video with sound, 24 hours. © Christian Marclay. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
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