Real Time, Venice

Maarten Baas’ Real Time series now encompasses his Grandfather Clocks, Film Clocks, Confetti Clocks, and Sweeper’s Clocks. Notable editions include the Rijksmuseum’s Grandfather Clock and the Schiphol Clock commissioned for Amsterdam’s international airport.

This edition, Real Time XL The Artist, features a life size video performance of the artist working as if from inside the clock itself, continually drawing and redrawing the correct time onto the inside of the clock face.

The concept reinforces the notion of time as a human invention, and draws attention to the phenomenon of time passing at the exclusion of all else.