Christian
Marclay
A Symphony of Scratches and Silences: The World of Christian Marclay Christian Marclay’s artistic journey is one of radical recontextualization, a constant questioning of boundaries between sound, image, and time. Born in 1955 in San Rafael, California, to a Swiss father and American mother, his …
A portrait built from Christian Marclay's own colours
Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
