When his twenty-four-hour film The Clock was awarded the Golden Lion at the fifty-fourth Venice Biennale in 2011, his hour had struck. Yet as an artist, performer, and pioneer of turntablism, the Swiss-American Christian Marclay (*1955) has been famous for his complex oeuvre for more than thirty years. Since then he has translated sounds and music into visible forms in his performances, installations, collages, sculptures, and photographs, revealing sensory experiences in them that his viewers had never dared to experience. Comic books and mangas are the source material for Marclay's most recent works, whose listening experience yet again opens up new dimensions. The extensive monograph not only does justice to the entire spectrum of the artist's multimedia and synaesthetic oeuvre; it also brings previously little known works home to our eyes and our ears. Exhibition: Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, 30.8.2015 - 15.11.2015

Listening with one's eyes, seeing with one's ears

About the Author
Gilda Williams is a contemporary art critic, editor and teacher. She is a lecturer on the MFA in Curating programme, Goldsmiths College, and Sotheby's Institute of Art. She is London correspondent for Artforum magazine and a member of the International Association of Art Critics.


Book Information
ISBN 9783775740418
Author Madeleine Schuppli und Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint Hatje Cantz
Publisher Hatje Cantz
Weight(grams) 1030g