Graffiti Composition, 2002
In 1996 Christian Marclay, an artist who has been exploring visual and audio crosscurrents for twenty years, plastered more than 5,000 blank musical notation sheets in public spaces throughout Berlin during a month-long sound festival. Members of the public filled them in with standard musical notations as well as scribbles, drawings and random marks. Marclay then photographed the graffitied sheets, selected 150 from the group, and compiled them into a book, creating a musical score. This selection of prints makes visible the usually intangible elements of music, like beat and rhythm.
Graffiti Composition has been interpreted by a variety of musical ensembles in the last few years, including at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2001, the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans in 2002, the Barbican Centre, London, in 2005, and at MoMA, New York in 2006 by composer/producer/sound artist Elliott Sharp and five renowned guitar players, Melvin
Gibbs, Mary Halvorson, Lee Ranaldo, Vernon Reid and Sharp. Tonight French haprist Helene Breschand will be performing the work at the Yvon Lambert gallery in Paris.
Helene Breschand
YVON LAMBERT PARIS
108 rue Vieille du Temple
F - 75003 Paris France
T: +33 (0)1 42 71 09 33
www.yvon-lambert.com
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