Christian Marclay

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the tonality of the yellow record album cover is warmer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. All surface irregularities are in keeping with the artist's use of found media.
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“In my visual work I had been using found objects from my environment, things that I was confronted with every day. That’s where the records came from. And records are already samples - captured sound that we can play back over and over. The record is interesting as an object, because it can be a sculpture and it also contains this potential for sound. There are so many sounds you can create with a record: speed it up, slow it down, mix it with live instruments, play not only what’s in the groove but any sound that you can get out of it. I’ve even used them as acoustic sound objects with no turntables, just scratching them with my nails, or wobbling them or breaking them.”
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY
in conversation with Ben Neill, ‘Christian Marclay’, BOMB - Artists in Conversation, Summer 2003, no. 84, online resource