Christian Marclay: Cities
Comprehensive monograph documenting Christian Marclay's work across photography, video, performance, and sound expression, examining how the artist transforms urban fragments into visual and sonic scores.
The 236-page volume presents 1,719 color illustrations spanning decades of Marclay's practice at the intersection of visual arts and contemporary sound. Edited by Sérgio Mah, the book features essays by Mah and writer Olivia Laing, plus an interview between critic Ben Luke and the artist. Laurent Benner designed the publication. Marclay's practice explores how vision and sound enrich and challenge one another, creating works that incorporate audio materials, temporal elements, and urban detritus as both subject and medium. The book surveys his engagement with cities as sites of visual and auditory collage, from altered record covers to photographic series to video installations. Published by Hirmer Publishers and distributed by University of Chicago Press.
Christian Marclay (b. 1955, San Rafael, California) is an American artist with nearly four decades of practice spanning video, photography, sculpture, and installation. His work is best known for The Clock (2010), a 24-hour looped video that won the Golden Lion at the 54th Venice Biennale. Major solo exhibitions include presentations at the Hirshhorn Museum (1990), Whitney Museum (2010), Centre Pompidou Paris (2022), and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2019). His work is held in collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate, and Centre Pompidou. He is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, Fraenkel Gallery, and White Cube.
