Exquisite Corpse

Remember when you were a kid and you would accordion fold up a piece of paper then one person would draw the head, the next the shoulders and arms all the way until the feet were drawn? When finished, you would unfold it and have this wonderfully imagined creature!

Christian Marclay does that in his own unique way with album covers as his medium! In these. Marclay explore the way music functions socially. Notions of nostalgia and sexual stereotypes are revealed in the visually powerful album-cover collages from his Body Mix series. He kind of Frankenstein sews the album covers together to create these new visages. Several of these are a part of the Sympathy For The Devil show at the MCA Chicago.

Marclay is also known for his surreal musical instrument sculptures and spaces filled with albums.