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In a world where an artist's importance is often conferred by small groups of experts and cognoscenti, Bill Viola's rich imagery touches a nerve with large international audiences. His work never shies away from making big statements about human life and its relation to the universe, to the soul and human spirit, to nature and to death. He is one of those rare artists whose work makes us aware of our nature as human beings, taking art back to what were once its fundamental concerns and giving it a relevance to the emotional and spiritual lives of ordinary people.
Renowned video artist Viola participates in a conversation that provides new insight into his current interests, his creative process, and the images and texts that serve as sources for his work. Color photos.
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Pour la première fois, un musée accueille en Suisse un ensemble important des installations vidéo de l'artiste américian Bill Viola. Certes, les bandes vidéo de Viola ont été présentées au public suisse à de nombreuses reprises dans les années quatre-vingt - notamment en 1985 à Saint-Gervais Genève dans un atelier dirigé par l'artiste lors de la permière Semaine Internationale de Vidéo. Ces manifestations ont suscité un grand intérêt mais aucun musée n'avait jusqu'alors exposé les travaux tridimensionnels de l'artiste. ...
Bill Viola (b. 1951) is one of today's premier video installation artists whose apparently straightforward imagery belies a decades-long investigation into the human imagination and its various states of consciousness. This unique and accessible guide to Viola's work provides new insights into the artist's creative processes by drawing on his own writing, as well as texts that have inspired his creative vision. John G. Hanhardt, an expert on Bill Viola, explores how the artist's work relates to literature, philosophy, poetry, and mysticism. Kira Perov, Viola's wife, artistic collaborator, and the manager of his studio, offers her own intimate insights into his work and studio production. Beautifully illustrated, this book imparts a fresh take on Viola's art, originality, and celebrated creativity. Distributed for the Barnes Foundation Exhibition Schedule: The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (06/30/19-09/15/19)
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The story of how a trinity of California-based creatives pushed the boundaries to re-imagine a radical Tristan und Isolde opera for our times, resulting in a sensational major body of artwork by visionary American artist Bill Viola
The breach of art from religion is just one of the many unhappy legacies of modernism. There was a time, however, when the aesthetic and the spiritual were of a piece. This study of the work of American video artist Bill Viola considers the possible reemergence of a theological dimension to contemporary art--a reenchantment of art, as some have called it. Using the high-tech apparatus of modern video, Viola's art is rooted precisely in this theological tradition of transcendent mystical experience and spiritual self-concentration. The technological apotheosis of modern image-making--high speed film, high-definition video, LCD and plasma screens, and sophisticated sound recording--are put to ...