✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

You have reached the limit of free articles.


To enjoy unlimited access to Culture Whisper sign up for FREE.
Find out more about Culture Whisper

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy

Each week, we send newsletters and communication featuring articles, our latest tickets invitations, and exclusive offers.

Occasional information about discounts, special offers and promotions.


OR
LOG IN

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

Thanks for signing up to Culture Whisper.
Please check your inbox for a confirmation email and click the link to verify your account.



EXPLORE CULTURE WHISPER
✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy
Forgot your username or password?
Don't have an account? Sign Up

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

If you click «Log in with Facebook» and are not a Culture Whisper user, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and to our Privacy Policy, which includes our Cookie Use

Support Us Login
  • Home
  • Going Out
    • Things to do
    • Food & Drink
    • Theatre
    • Visual Arts
    • Cinema
    • Kids
    • Festival
    • Gigs
    • Dance
    • Classical Music
    • Opera
    • Immersive
    • Talks
  • Staying In
    • TV
    • Books
    • Cook
    • Podcast
    • Design
    • Netflix
  • Life & Style
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
    • Gifting
    • Wellbeing
    • Lifestyle
    • Shopping
    • Jewellery
  • Explore
  • Shopping
  • CW SHOPS
  • Support Us
  • Get Started
  • Tickets
  • CW SHOPS
Get the Best of London Life, Culture and Style
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
Things to do

Christian Marclay: The Clock – Exhibition at Tate Modern ★★★★★

14 Sep 18 – 20 Jan 19, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Christian Marclay premiered his intensely visual work The Clock in 2010. Now it's back to London. But time's ticking, it'll be gone by Monday

By Euan Franklin on 18/1/2019

2 CW readers are interested
Christian Marclay: The Clock - Exhibition at Tate Modern
Christian Marclay: The Clock - Exhibition at Tate Modern
Christian Marclay: The Clock – Exhibition at Tate Modern 4 Christian Marclay: The Clock – Exhibition at Tate Modern Euan Franklin
In 2011, the Ridley Scott-backed Life in a Day showed snapshots of home-video footage from around the world within a 24-hour period (compressed into two). The year before, visual artist Christian Marclay achieved something similar within the history of cinema – only with more ambition. Coming back to London in September, his intensely visual 24-hour-long exhibit The Clock is an hypnotic study of time in movies. Using 10,000 clips from a whole range of films with different styles and flavours, Marclay guides us, minute-by-minute, through an entire day.


TRY CULTURE WHISPER
Receive free tickets & insider tips to unlock the best of London — direct to your inbox
The concept attaches some natural hesitation. Are viewers just watching time literally pass? The short answer is yes, through a variety of ticking wristwatches, grandfather clocks, clocks on buildings (Big Ben makes many cameos), and medieval bell tolls – all matching the exact time in reality. However, the way in which Marclay edits these clips together is strangely immersive and educational: teaching that time is an important part of film narrative.



Scenes from heist movies feature regularly, as a way of exposing tension as well as in dramas that feature a character’s impatience, a clock usually looming over them. Arriving as we did at 10:30 in the morning, on-screen couples were waking up in bed after sleeping too late (often in post-coital positions). But most exciting of all, once the clock progresses to the next hour, Marclay makes it a turning point in his narrative – it’s hard not to be thrilled when the hand reaches noon. He demonstrates the aesthetic and dramatic value of those precise hours in movies.


In many ways, The Clock resembles a YouTube movie supercut or video-essay that’s been taken to ridiculous lengths, but it’s more attractive than that. Marclay allows a glimpse into how directors and cinematographers from across time and around the world depict certain times of day. Different colours, ways of framing, manipulating light and dark – all of which are dependent on time. And isn’t that what cinema is – the observance of space playing with time? Marclay reveals this, and makes you look closer.


The Clock will continue until 20th January. It will stay open overnight on 12th - 13th January 2019


What Christian Marclay: The Clock – Exhibition at Tate Modern
Where Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG | MAP
Nearest tube Southwark (underground)
When 14 Sep 18 – 20 Jan 19, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Price £Free
Website Click here for more information



Most popular

Things to do in London this weekend: 5 - 7 August
Things to do in London this weekend: 5 - 7 August
London's loveliest indoor swimming pools
London swimming pools you can visit without membership
London events for kids: July 2022
London events for kids: summer 2022

Editor's Picks

In-the-know art exhibitions online
In-the-know art exhibitions online
Lisa Brice, Smoke and Mirrors, Hayward Gallery.
The best art exhibitions: London, autumn 2021
London Fashion Exhibitions: on now
London Fashion Exhibitions: on now
Lucian Freud, Girl With Dog (1950-1). Tate. © Tate
Review: All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, Tate Britain,
Es Devlin
London Design Festival 2018 Es Devlin installation: The Order of Time, Peckham
The Sadiq Khan balloon
A Sadiq Khan balloon takes to the sky
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
2

London

Things To Do

Contemporary Art

Visual Arts

You might like

  • Fortnum's X Frank 2018

    Fortnum's X Frank exhibition, 2018, Fortnum & Mason

  • Christo and Jeanne-Claude  The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, 2016-18  Photo: Wolfgang Volz  © 2018 Christo

    Meet the artist: Christo signing at TASCHEN Store London

  • Jessica Craig-Martin  Hamptons Cocktail Party, July 1998  , 1998  Cibachrome print   61.3 x 92 cm  © Jessica Craig-Martin, 1998  Image courtesy of the Saatchi Gallery, London

    Review: Black Mirror: Art as Social Satire, Saatchi Gallery ★★★★★

  • START Art Fair 2019, Saatchi Gallery

    START Art Fair 2019, Saatchi Gallery

  • Splatoon © 2015 Nintendo.

    Review: Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt, V&A ★★★★★

  • Elmgreen & Dragset, The Whitechapel Pool, 2018

    Review: Elmgreen & Dragset Whitechapel exhibition: This is How We Bite Our Tongue ★★★★★



  • The Culture Whisper team
  • Support Us
  • Tickets
  • Contact us
  • Press
  • FAQ
  • Privacy
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookies
  • Discover
  • Venues
  • Restaurants
  • Stations
  • Boroughs
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
×