MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN

Wood and metal

3 x 5 1/8 x 4" CLOSED

2005

Beginning in 1988, the Norton Family sent a limited edition Christmas gift to a wide list of friends in the art community including art institutions. Commissioned by an artist, the gift encompassed a variety of multi-media artworks such as a porcelain ashtray, a printed fan, a woven blanket, a lifesaver, a dollhouse and a crazy coffee cup all of which later became part of the Norton Family Art Projects. In 2005, Christian Marclay who uses the cultural implications of music and sound in his sculptures and installation presented his Music Box which plays "Tinsel" - a seamless melodic loop without beginning or end that incorporates the gradual slowing of the unwinding mechanism.

2005

MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN

b. United States, 1955

Gift of Bruce Robertson and Thomas Kren

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