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Christian Marclay at the Whitney Museum of American Art
1 Jul 2010
The Whitney Museum of American Art is pleased to host its first major solo exhibition by Christian Marclay.
Marclay is an artist and composer, whose practice is influenced by musical scores. For the past fifteen years, he has created scores from sources as diverse as found objects, clothing, record covers, boxes, photographs, works on paper, collage, and video projections such as ‘Ephemera’ (2009); a portfolio of photographed objects such as restaurant bills, flyers, book covers, and packaging for household articles, all replete with ready-made musical notations and ‘Graffiti Composition’ (1996-2002), a project completed in Berlin in which blank sheet music was pasted up throughout the city to be scored, marked up, graffiti-tagged, or torn.
The exhibition will feature a schedule of daily musical performances by invited musicians who have all collaborated with Marclay, such as Okkyung Lee, Butch Morris and Marina Rosenfeld amongst others who will interpret the scores in numerous innovative ways.
The exhibition will also début new works ‘Prêt-à-Porter’ (2010), a piece in which Marclay’s collection of clothing and accessories containing musical notations is worn by models while musicians interpret the notes on the garments; and ‘Manga Scroll’ (2010), a brand new vocal score based on onomatopoeias from Japanese cartoons.
Christian Marclay: Festival
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
1 July – 26 Sept 2010
Christian Marclay, Zoom Zoom, 2008. Digital slide projection, colour, silent. Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery.
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