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Christian Marclay

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Art is all in the details.


— Christian Marclay


#details

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.


— Christian Marclay


#artist #hollywood #not talking #obscure #somewhat

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.


— Christian Marclay


#different #engagement #every #i #i think

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.


— Christian Marclay


#admire #american #art #artists #culture

I have never been much of a painter.


— Christian Marclay


#i #much #never #painter

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.


— Christian Marclay


#big #clock #could #fit #force

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.


— Christian Marclay


#creators #good #interesting #like #make

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.


— Christian Marclay


#editing #front #get #good #long

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.


— Christian Marclay


#happens #i #life #suppose #way

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.


— Christian Marclay


#been #child #cutting #drawing #i






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Thom Jurek writes that "While many intellectuals have made wild pronouncements about Marclay and his art – and it is art make no mistake – writing all sorts of blather about how he strips the adult century bare by his cutting up of vinyl records and pasting them together with parts from other vinyl records they never seem to mention that these sound collages of his are charming very human and quite often intentionally hilarious. These duos with Henry might be the first time a musician used records and turntables as interactive improvising musical instruments.

Marclay's work explores connections between sound noise photography video and film. " His own use of turntables and records beginning in the late 1970s was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop's use of the instrument. Christian Ernest Marclay (born 11 January 1955) is a Swiss and American visual artist and composer.

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