Real Time is an art installation series by Dutch designer
Maarten Baas
Maarten Baas (; born 19 February 1978) is a Dutch furniture designer. He is known for his Real Time series of clocks in which people paint the time by hand.
His career path was influenced by mentors like Jurgen Bey, colleagues like Bertjan Pot ...
. It consists of works in which people manually create and erase the hands on a clock each minute.
The first works in the series were launched in April 2009. They consist of videos in which sweepers move around trash to create the analog clock hands ("Sweeper's clock"), a person behind a translucent screen paints a digital clock, and grandfather clocks in which a man behind a screen paints the analog hands.
In 2016, Baas continued the series with the "Schiphol clock" at the
Schiphol Airport
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in
Amsterdam
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, Netherlands. It depicts a man behind a translucent screen painting the minutes. Baas recorded himself for 12 hours to create the video used.
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Clocks
Installation art works
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