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Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay is a New York based visual artist and composer whose innovative work explores the juxtaposition between sound recording, photography, video and film. 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.” A dadaist DJ and filmmaker, his installations and video/film collages display provocative musical and visual landscapes and have been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art New York, the Venice Biennale, and Centre Pompidou.
In this new work by Christian Marclay, Sound Holes are not openings in the bodies of stringed instruments but instead industrially designed wall speakers installed in elevators, apartment buildings and the like. The artist explores the devices’ visual and functional properties in 21 beautifully toned photogravures, derived from photographs of sound holes found in Europe and the United States. The sound holes display a wide range of varying designs and patterns, and their basic configuration echoes the visual representation of actual sound waves. Their blank metallic and stone surfaces serve as barriers, dividing in a hierarchical way the speaker from the listener, and also serve as openings, providing avenues for communication.
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