Silent (Music Box)

Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay unites sound and music with visual art throughout his prolific multidisciplinary practice. His aural explorations include sound-based installations created with grafted-together records, which the artist calls “theater of found sound,” as well as sculptures such as Virtuoso (1999), which comprises a stretched-out accordion. Marclay’s videos include Guitar Drag (2000)—which depicts the destruction of a guitar and references the murder of James Byrd Jr., an African American man dragged by a truck to his death—and Video Quartet (2002), a multichannel projection featuring old clips of Hollywood actors and musicians making sound or playing instruments. Perhaps his best known work, The Clock (2010), is a looped 24-hour film about time. Marclay has participated in the Venice Biennale and exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work has sold for six figures at auction.