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Christian Marclay

 
Christian Marclay

American and Swiss 20th-21st century visual artist, sculptor, and musician
(San Rafael, California, 1/11/1955 - )

From Fraenkel Gallery: "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. Marlcay was born in California in 1955 and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. His mother was American so he held a double nationality. He studied at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel from 1977–1980 in Geneva, Switzerland. From 1977–1980 he studied sculpture at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He also studied as a visiting scholar at Cooper Union in New York in 1978. 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,” influenced by Marcel Duchamp. Christian Marclay offers a unique, fresh and innovative voice that has inspired an entire generation of musicians, artists and theorists."

3 objects

Telephones

1995
DVD
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
2011.32
 

Peter Norton Family Christmas Project, 2005 (Music Box LISTEN/SILENT)

2005
wood and metal
Gift of The Peter Norton Family Christmas Project
2014.1.11
 

Tinsel

2005
music box mechanism on painted wooden box
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.219