Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay was born in California but grew up in Geneva where he attended art school.  In returning to the United States in 1977 he has been exploring the space between sound and image.  He is a visual artist creating works dealing with the relationship of sound and images.

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Marclay's images are described as a focus on time.  Russell Ferguson says, "The idea of abandonment and recovery is a powerful theme for Marclay.  His sculptures and collages are often made from the detritus of recorded and transmitted audibility: old phones, speakers, cassette tapes, album covers; and, of course, records, snatched from the edge of obsolescence into which they have already passed for most people.  His photograms of broken records, and indeed his working with records at all, speak of an attention to the outmoded and disappearing."  This work is called 'The Sound of Silence'.

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