Posted by Kira Perov
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
21 October 2008 - January 6, 2009
pioneer of video art, internationally recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists, Bill Viola has played a key role in the consecration of this kind as a form especially vital in the landscape of contemporary and has contributed to its development in terms of technology adoption and content.
For over 35 years, Bill Viola has been creating videotapes, video installations, sound environments, and performances of electronic music and video, made using sophisticated and innovative technology. His works, designed to totally immerse the visitor in image and sound-a unique blend technical sophistication with absolute formal simplicity.
At a time when the importance of an artist often comes from its recognition by a small group of experts, and video installations by Bill Viola are capable of engaging a broad audience. Deeply spiritual, his art explores the phenomenon of sensory perception as the way to self-knowledge, it focuses on the universal human experience (birth, death, nature, the relationship with the universe) and has its roots in Western and Eastern Europe as well as in various spiritual traditions, from Zen Buddhism, Sufism in Islam, through Christian mysticism. Retracing the art to its fundamental reasons, Viola relates to the common experience of every man, being able to give you the direct awareness of its nature, the true place where the work of Viola takes shape is in fact a screen or wall of a room, but the mind and the heart of the viewer.
The exhibition, edited by Kira Perov and created in collaboration with Claudia Zevi & Partners, features a selection of works that includes different examples of his recent artistic research: large size installations of the most famous and spectacular (The Crossing, The Veiling), revisiting video icons of art history (The Greeting, Emergence), images on flat-screen-through sequences in which slow and quiet, marvelous expressiveness-the artist focuses on the mystery of human emotions (pain, Soul, Silent Mountain, The Locked Garden).
www.palazzoesposizioni.it
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
21 October 2008 - January 6, 2009
pioneer of video art, internationally recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists, Bill Viola has played a key role in the consecration of this kind as a form especially vital in the landscape of contemporary and has contributed to its development in terms of technology adoption and content.
For over 35 years, Bill Viola has been creating videotapes, video installations, sound environments, and performances of electronic music and video, made using sophisticated and innovative technology. His works, designed to totally immerse the visitor in image and sound-a unique blend technical sophistication with absolute formal simplicity.
At a time when the importance of an artist often comes from its recognition by a small group of experts, and video installations by Bill Viola are capable of engaging a broad audience. Deeply spiritual, his art explores the phenomenon of sensory perception as the way to self-knowledge, it focuses on the universal human experience (birth, death, nature, the relationship with the universe) and has its roots in Western and Eastern Europe as well as in various spiritual traditions, from Zen Buddhism, Sufism in Islam, through Christian mysticism. Retracing the art to its fundamental reasons, Viola relates to the common experience of every man, being able to give you the direct awareness of its nature, the true place where the work of Viola takes shape is in fact a screen or wall of a room, but the mind and the heart of the viewer.
The exhibition, edited by Kira Perov and created in collaboration with Claudia Zevi & Partners, features a selection of works that includes different examples of his recent artistic research: large size installations of the most famous and spectacular (The Crossing, The Veiling), revisiting video icons of art history (The Greeting, Emergence), images on flat-screen-through sequences in which slow and quiet, marvelous expressiveness-the artist focuses on the mystery of human emotions (pain, Soul, Silent Mountain, The Locked Garden).
www.palazzoesposizioni.it
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