Cathy's Art Diary

Beautiful exhibition at White Cube Masons’ Yard of a new video and sculpture by Christian Marclay. Marclay is best known for his videos and this was another excellent one. It pieces together exerts from films of people opening, going through and closing doors. It swaps quickly between clips perfectly matching the placing of the door on screen so that one person enters and another appears. I’m not sure how long it is but I watched memorised for about 20 minutes. Upstairs the video was complimented by sculptures made of doors cut up and stuck back together in another way. I loved them and trying to work out how the door had been used. Closed 30 September 2023 Review Guardian  

Mesmerising video installation at Tate Modern by Christian Marclay. This work lasts 24 hours and puts together clips from films which show clocks and time so that they appear at the correct time of the real day. You can drift in and out, don’t worry you don’t have to watch 24 hours! The room is huge and set out like a cinema but with sofas but it’s a bit hard to find your way onto one in the dark. I dropped in for about half an hour. Watching it seems to make time slow down as you wait for the next minute to tick over and you try to spot the clock and the time in the clip. You also play a game with yourself to try to name the film. I was delighted to spot Big Ben and the Liver Building in the section I saw. I also got a bit of James Bond, a few Westerns and lots of trains, which of course are a rich sauce of time references. I want to try to go back at a different time to watch a bit more and see if the work feels different it you are watching different times of day. ...

Interesting exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey of new work by Christian Marclay looking at the relationship between image and sound. There was one room of bright pop art style pictures of the written sound in cartoons. Focusing on wet noises he used dripping plaint to reflect this. Another room also used cartoon sound images but projected onto the walls around you in an animating which reflected the sound. One of the best video installations I’ve seen in a while. The corridor featured a video installation shown on multiple screens at foot level of a walk along a street on a morning walk in which the artists ‘coaxes sound’ from the empty glasses, bottles and cans which he finds, entitled “Pub Crawl” you walk through it casting your shadow as you go. At weekends there is music being performed in the spaces which is recorded then during the week is made into vinyl records is a pressing plant set up in one of the rooms. I found this mesmerizing! A hard working man moved ...