Marbella
20th August 2006, 06:38 PM
I've got to tell you about this. If you haven't seen it already, look out for his 'video art' called Video Quartet. If anyone has seen it or knows if it is viewable on the web somewhere I'd really like to hear from you. I saw it in Tate Modern (http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=81113&searchid=9817&roomid=3657&tabview=work) London today and I just thought it was incredible. Brilliantly clever.
I don't think I can do it justice by describing it so I've pinched another's words below. It's on the 5th floor of TM now. I'm not sure if it is part of the permanent collection but if you can't get to London to see it then look out for it should it do the rounds.
"...epic Video Quartet, a visual and sonic collage that explores a kind of collective film memory, using extracts from well-known Hollywood movies, with an overlaid, sampled soundtrack.
Of its first presentation in the US, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith exclaimed: "Marclay has never brought music, sound and image into such perfect, beautiful, funny alignment, nor conflated seeing and hearing so ecstatically…..no amount of naming names, identifying individual movies or describing scenes can account for the work's delicious, fast-paced flow."
For this work, Marclay collected thousands of Hollywood movie clips featuring images of hands on keyboards, horns and violins, as well as men and women singing, dancing and engaging in various other acts of making noise."
http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/T/T11/T11818_8.jpg
I don't think I can do it justice by describing it so I've pinched another's words below. It's on the 5th floor of TM now. I'm not sure if it is part of the permanent collection but if you can't get to London to see it then look out for it should it do the rounds.
"...epic Video Quartet, a visual and sonic collage that explores a kind of collective film memory, using extracts from well-known Hollywood movies, with an overlaid, sampled soundtrack.
Of its first presentation in the US, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith exclaimed: "Marclay has never brought music, sound and image into such perfect, beautiful, funny alignment, nor conflated seeing and hearing so ecstatically…..no amount of naming names, identifying individual movies or describing scenes can account for the work's delicious, fast-paced flow."
For this work, Marclay collected thousands of Hollywood movie clips featuring images of hands on keyboards, horns and violins, as well as men and women singing, dancing and engaging in various other acts of making noise."
http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/T/T11/T11818_8.jpg