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BILL VIOLA 1951–2024. The unfolding of consciousness, the revelation of beauty, present even after death, the moment of awe, the space without words, the emptiness that builds mountains, the joy of loving, the sorrow of loss, the gift of leaving something behind for the next traveler. – Bill Viola.
Photo: Kira Perov © Bill Viola Studio. Bill Viola (b.1951) is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading artists. He has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art, and in so doing has helped to greatly expand its scope in terms of technology, content, and historical reach.
Bill Viola discusses his childhood, career and the exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with Kira Perov, Executive Director Bill Viola Studio and Clare Lilley, Director of Programme YSP, 2015. " Rembrandt of the video age: Bill Viola explores the elemental wonder of his childhood," ABC Radio, 2015.
Texts by David A. Ross, Bill Viola, and John Walsh; conversation between Bill Viola, Otto Neumaier and Alexander Pühringer. Seville: Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Cultura. In Spanish.
Nov 8, 2005 · Concert of Bill Viola's Déserts in conjunction with the exhibitionon June 18, 2006. Click here for more information. Press Release; April 27, 2006 - May 28, 2006
For purchases of videos for home viewing, as of 2022, the only Bill Viola video work available is Sweet Life, 1977, through Video Data Bank in Chicago, listed below. Both EAI and Video Data Bank are excellent resources for accessing extensive catalogues of video art in general.
A Close Look at Human Emotions: Bill Viola at the Kunsthalle Bremen. Bill Viola is one of the most renowned video artists of our times. On the occasion of NORD/LB’s Kunstpreis 2005 awarding, the Kunsthalle Bremen is presenting a significant selection of his works.
In “Bill Viola: The Moving Portrait,” the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery offers a new interpretation of the artist’s work, presenting it through the lens of portraiture and technology. The exhibition, the first of its kind for Viola’s work in Washington, includes 11 media pieces by the pioneering artist.
artist Bill Viola created four hours of video as a visual complement to this profound psychological drama. It also tells the story of its commissioning by the then Paris Opera director Gerard Mortier, who pushed the boundaries of what opera could be by inviting a trinity of California-based creatives to re-imagine a Tristan und Isolde for our ...
Bill Viola to accompany the work with his own visual commentary. On a 30-foot-wide screen above and behind the somberly lighted space peopled by the singers, images that recall some of Mr. Viola's well-known video pieces variously offer literal,
