{"id":1487,"date":"2015-02-04T16:39:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2015-02-04T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:55:15","slug":"christian-marclay-at-whitecube-bermonsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"Christian Marclay at WHITECUBE, Bermonsey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christian Marclay has a new solo exhibition at\u00a0White Cube.\u00a0It features surround audiovisual multi-screen projection works using a configuration\u00a0similar Goldsmith’s new ‘SIML’ space.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The work was produced with the assistance of two of Goldsmith’s\u00a0MA & MFA Computational Arts\u00a0students\u00a0Haein Kim\u00a0and\u00a0Antonio Daniele and one of our\u00a0PhD students\u00a0Diego Macedodefagundes.<\/p>\n

About the exhibition:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Continuing Marclay\u2019s long-standing interest in the relationship between image and sound, the exhibition is comprised of a series of works on canvas and paper that feature onomatopoeia taken from comic books. Unlike earlier instances of sound mimesis in his work, these focus solely on the wet sounds suggestive of the action of painting. Combining cartoon-strip imagery and the dripping, pouring and splashing noises associated with gestural abstraction, the works ironically bridge a gap between art movements as distinct as Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. This is also reflected in the method in which they have been made; a combination of painting overlaid with screen printing.<\/p>\n

A further set of onomatopoeia is put in motion for the first time in a large-scale video installation which projects across four walls. To make the work, the artist collated a lexicon of the sound effects made by characters in superhero stories. The scanned swatches were then animated using the software programme After Effects in a dynamic choreography that suggests the acoustic properties of each word. \u2018Boom\u2019, for example, is no longer static on the page, but bursts into life in a sequence of colourful explosions, while \u2018Whooosh!\u2019 and \u2018Zoooom!\u2019 travel at high speed around the walls. The work fuses the aural with the visual, and immerses the viewer in a silent musical composition.<\/p>\n

The aqueous motif introduced with the paintings runs throughout the exhibition, surfacing in a number of new works that allude to everyday life. In a new video installation entitled\u00a0Pub Crawl <\/i>(2014), the artist coaxes sound from the empty glasses, bottles and cans that he finds abandoned on the streets of East London, during early morning weekend walks. In a series of projections that run the length of the gallery\u2019s corridor, these discarded vessels are hit, rolled and crushed, forming a lively sound track that echoes throughout the space.<\/p>\n

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Christian Marclay has a new solo exhibition at\u00a0White Cube.\u00a0It features surround audiovisual multi-screen projection works using a configuration\u00a0similar Goldsmith’s new ‘SIML’ space. The work was produced with the assistance of two of Goldsmith’s\u00a0MA & MFA Computational Arts\u00a0students\u00a0Haein Kim\u00a0and\u00a0Antonio Daniele and one of our\u00a0PhD students\u00a0Diego Macedodefagundes. About the exhibition: Continuing Marclay\u2019s long-standing interest in the relationship … Continue reading Christian Marclay at WHITECUBE, Bermonsey<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[105,110,108],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}