Christian Marclay

Félix González-Torres

Werner Muensterberger

Fred Wilson

Janine Antoni

Jessica Stockholder

Gregory Green

Alan Rath

Lisa Yuskavage

Kay Rosen

Willie Coles

Jason Rhoades

Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting

Jean-Pierre Criqui

Musée de la musique (Paris, France)

Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Edited by Jean-Pierre Criqui. Text by Philippe-Alain Michaud, Rosalind E. Krauss, Peter Szendy, Emma Lavigne.

Marclay

Replay

Douglas Kahn

Russell Ferguson

Alan Licht

Sound, and our culturally determined reactions to it, are what drive Marclay's genre and media crossing art. Beginning in 1980, this volume explores his works within a variety of contexts that range from music and art history to popular culture.

Kim Gordon

Matthew Higgs

Jennifer Gonzalez

Christian Marclay is a New York-based, Swiss American artist who emerged in both the contemporary art and music scenes during the 1980s. He works across numerous visual media - sculpture, installation performance, found objects and collage - along with music and its artifacts, to create a unique, multidisciplinary art. Also a respected composer and DJ. he has collaborated with John Zorn and Elliott Sharp, among many others. In his visual works he sometimes simply evokes the memory of music, as in The Beatles (1989), a pillow crocheted out of Beatles audio tapes. Elsewhere he examines the cliched images of music-making, for example those found on LP record covers, charismatic, classical music conductors, smiling Easy Listening girls and sultry rock stars. These are then carefully sewn together to form hybrid figures echoing the splicing of the music itself (Body Mix, 1991-93). Marclay has presented his unique sound-and-vision works at the Whitney Biennial, New York, 1991 and 2002, and at the Venice Biennale, 1995 and 1999, among many other key international exhibitions. A major travelling retrospective of his work originated at teh Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in 2003 and ended its tour at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 2005. The highlight is his tour de force, Video Quartet (2003), a four-screen installation largely combining Hollywood film clips associated with music, edited together with virtuoso precision.

Christian Marclay

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