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Christian Marclay

This event has now finished Until Nov 13 2010 White Cube Mason's Yard, 25-26 Mason's Yard, SW1Y 6BU Full details & map

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Christian Marclay, ‘The Clock’, 2010 Christian Marclay, ‘The Clock’, 2010 - Courtesy White Cube

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The term 'magnum opus' doesn't tend to get used much for new art, but surely if anything warrants the description it's 'The Clock' - the product of close to three years' work, and quite simply the most grandiose statement of the American artist's sampling aesthetic to date. The central concept, certainly, is grand: the relentless passage of time, the moments of reality that infiltrate cinematic fantasy. And yet, if this really is Marclay's aim, then his decision to use sampled film clips backfires. 'The Clock', for all its technical proficiency, ends up simply as the artistic equivalent of one of those TV-clip shows, an exercise in viewing nostalgia. (NC)

Christian Marclay and Rirkrit Tiravanija play with time

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White Cube Mason's Yard, 25-26 Mason's Yard, SW1Y 6BU

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Jay Jopling's White Cube empire began in a little room on Duke Street in 1993, so it seems apt that the most recent gallery to open under the...

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