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■ Visitor's information

CHRISTIAN MARCLA
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU HEAR
December. 9.2010 - February.13.2011

Hours

Tuesdays - Sundays 10:30~ 18:00
※ Closed: Every Monday, Lunar New Year & New Years Day

Admission

Adults: 3,000\ / Ages 7-18: 2,000\

Present

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art
Samsung Child Education Center

Sponsor

Samsung Electronics


■ Introduction

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 DJ performances using LP records and turntables to objects that physicalize a variety of sounds, Marclay’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.

■ Programs

1. December.11.2010 Saturday 16:00
ㆍ Artist's Talk : Christian Marclay
(Simultaneous Interpretation),

2. January. 8.2011 Saturday 14:00
ㆍ Movies and Fine Arts as Visual Art: prof. Whyi-Yeon Jin
ㆍ Curator's Talk: Kyunghwa Koo, Curator of Leeum

3. January.22.2011 Saturday 14:00
ㆍ View on Christian Marclay as media esthetic:
Prof. Young-Wook Park, prof.Kyung-Hee Kim
※ Reservation required on Leeum Website