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What You See is What You Hear
Artist(s): Christian MARCLAY
Date: 9 Dec 2010 - 13 Feb 2011

Unlike the usual visual art, the work of Christian Marclay revolves around sound and presents a new form of synesthetic art that is aimed at uniting visual and aural senses Ranging from CU performances using LP records and turntables to objects that physicalize a variety of sounds, Marday's work has made it possible to see sound. The artist's tireless and unique pursuit of the processes of visualizing music and sound has enjoyed widespread attention from the international art world as well as from the field of avant-garde music. Marclay has made a number of works that use LP album covers or fragments of musical scores in ways that are reminiscent of sampling, the method of using parts of various songs in popular music. It can be said, then, that his video works, which edit and splice together diverse scenes excerpted from movies represent the most recent chapter in this process of evolution. The present exhibition consists of three video works. If Telephones provided the artist with a new opportunity for art-making by linking movie scenes that feature the telephone, Video Quartet showed his ingenious ability to create a new soundscape out of existing films. The Clock, which reconstructs the twenty-four hours of a day through a video, is a masterpiece that embodies the weight of time enveloping us as well as the overwhelming power of popular cultures. The artist's works in the present exhibition re-edit films, which are customarily thought to be seen with the eye, with attention to the sounds, and freely utilize them as materials for his own creations. While the works are composed of scenes from famous movies known to most people, the artist's novel reinterpretation of them through taking the sounds from the scenes as the material enables viewers to see the films in a completely different light.

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