Christian Marclay

  Christian Marclay was born in California in 1955, but grew up in Switzerland. He worked in many different fields including noise art, painting,photography, and video arts. He studied at multiple institutes including the Massachutets College of Art and Design. He created multiple songs and had well known works including Record WIthout a Cover, The Clock, and more. (wikipedia)

 

  The first piece I am choosing to talk about is this one. It appears to be cassette tape film draped across a paper with some cassettes at the bottom. The piece gives off a very fun and spunky vibe. The tapes coming down the page remind me of streamers throw at a party or toilet paper being thrown at someones house. I also love how theres an everymely dark blue and a white and not really any other depth.


The other piece I am choosing to talk about is this one, which I feel like fits really well with the other piece. I appreciate how this piece is much more organized while the other is a little more sporadic and unorganized. I like how symmetrical the tapes are placed. I also like how he chose to have some on their dark sides and some are on the lighter sides so theres a little more contrast and it adds to the composition of the piece in my opinion.



Overall I definitely like Christian Marclay’s style of his cyanotypes. I think it is impressive how neatly he is able to produce them when cyanotypes can be extremely messy.

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