BRIEF ABOUT: This marks the first Midwest presentation of The Clock since its London debut in 2010. The Clock is a video work that literally tells the time by splicing together thousands of movie scenes depicting clocks, watches and other timepieces, so as to track the passage of time over a 24-hour period.
At each venue where the work is installed, the piece is synced to the local time—so when a scene shows 12 noon in The Clock, it is actually 12 noon for those watching the video. Ranging from iconic movie scenes to more obscure film excerpts, The Clock features “cameo appearances” by such stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart, Charlie Chaplin, Nicole Kidman, Robert Redford, and scores of others as they watch or talk about the time. The clips were painstakingly culled over the course of three years.
Born in California in 1955 and raised in Switzerland, Christian Marclay currently resides in London. For the last three decades, he has explored the fusion of fine art and sound through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, painting, photography, and video. He was a pioneer in the use of records and turntables as musical instruments. Marclay has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Seattle Art Museum, Barbican in London, UCLA’s Hammer Museum, and SFMOMA. He has been included in group exhibitions all over the world as well, and has collaborated with such musicians and performing artists as Kronos Quartet, John Zorn, Sonic Youth, Bebe Miller, and many others. More on Marclay can be found on the Paula Cooper Gallery’s web site, http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/artists/CM, and the White Cube Gallery’s web site, http://whitecube.com/artists/christian_marclay.
