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In Real Time Maarten Baas expresses his perception of time in five film clocks: Grandfather’s Clock, Sweeper’s Clock, Analog Digital Clock, World Clock, and the Zuiderzee Clock, which he has made especially for the Zuiderzee Museum. Filmed persons take over the function of the hands and affect the way the time is shown. The project symbolizes the way of thinking of the Zuiderzee Museum with regard to time: it combines the time lines of the past and the present, instead of showing history chronologically.

Zuiderzee Clock
Baas has created the Zuiderzee Clock especially for the Zuiderzee Museum. The clock is part of the exhibition Real Time. The clock will be on show at the Design Miami in Florida from 1 to 5 December 2009. You can see how the clock was realized on YouTube. Real Time will be on show in the Zuiderzee Museum, from 26 December 2009 onwards. It is in fact the first time that the clock can be admired in this country in its entirety.

About Maarten Baas
The Dutch designer Maarten Baas (1978) was trained at the Design Academy Eindhoven. His graduation assignment Smoke, consisting of burnt furniture, was his breakthrough and resulted in a nomination for the René Smeets Award and the Melkweg Design Award. Baas presented the work during the Milan designweek in 2003. Design Miami awarded Maarten Baas the prestigious Designer of the Year Award 2009. According to the jury, Baas has made a remarkable contribution to the development of designing. At the same time his enormous powers of imagination and his phenomenal talent are commended. With his project Real Time, Baas has also been nominated for the Dutch Design Award 2009.