We continue the story of the ten most important artists of our time according to Newsweek.com

demonstration of Christian Markleya "Clock" in New York. Source: newsweek.com

Continue the story of the ten most important artists of our time by Blake Gopnik version (Newsweek.com).

In January this year in New York was something unprecedented. Display Wizard vanguard of contemporary art - video art - has become a popular event among the general public. People spend hours in queues, idle in the cold to see new work by American artist of Swiss origin Markleya Christiana (Christian Marclay) «Open».

product in the form a 24-hour film consisting of kinootryvkov many of the hours and time, but actually tries to Markle insight into how the culture - in this case a segment of it as a cinema - imprints itself over time. "It is believed that artists are above the mass culture, but it's not all we exist within it" - says the 56-year-old artist, a few years ago moved from New York to London. "Entertainment - almost obscene word in the artistic environment", - he adds. However, reviewing by Hollywood to pieces (and Markle one of the first to create works of video art, excerpts from old movies), the artist reveals that the intricate mechanism by which it was woven primary sources.

first Markleya sudden popularity among the general public worries, as something fashionable often completely lacking is the depth. But appeals to the audience is full of meaningful work Markleya arising partly because of its incredible technological sophistication. After years of painstaking work by Markle has been achieved to watch on thousands of film frame around the clock showing real time. Forms the soundtrack to the visuals subtle polyphonic unity, which would have envied Bach himself.

But Markleya there is a relatively simple operation. For shooting video, "How to get a guitar," he found in the trunk of a pickup microphones and amplifiers, inserted into the socket electric Fender Stratocaster, and then dragged the unfortunate instrument, attached to the car on country roads. In the course of development of the video power chords are moving in barely audible hum, published inflamed guitar. The video was shot in Texas, where two years earlier, three white men similarly dealt with a black named James Byrd Jr., dragging him along the road until, until he died.

In addition to his other merits, Markle - an icon for DJs around the world. He is considered one of the pioneers of "turntablizma" art of spinning plates to create noise and rhythms. And he is an artist who more than anyone else did in order to open the way to the sound of the museum of the sanctuary. Last summer, in a retrospective of works in the Whitney Museum Markleya participate and a singer, improvise on the theme of 'play' Markleya (play this - nothing, as a collection of imitative word from the comics), a musician, playing on "A Clockwork guitar" Markleya - a kind of hybrid guitar and hurdy-gurdy.

Career Markleya began in the late seventies, when he, while an art student, who had just arrived in America from Switzerland, moved among New York's alternative music. Sam Markle said that the innovative group, where he listened to music, made him wonder: "Why is not this music is considered art?" Markle, video artist, who does not know musical notation, has pushed the process of its recognition as such.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Sources : newsweek.com , artinvestment.ru

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