Bill Viola

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Bill Viola (2011)

Bill Viola (born January 25, 1951 in New York City ) is an American video and installation artist . He can be seen as a leading exponent of video art .

Life

Bill Viola studied at Syracuse University with Jack Nelson and Franklin Morris. From 1974 to 1976 he lived in Florence , where he met the video artists Nam June Paik , Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci . In Florence he worked as technical director at Art / tapes / 22 . Art / tapes / 22 was a studio experimenting with new methods of video production and operated by Maria Gloria Conti Bicocchi. While traveling, he studied traditional drama and music in the Solomon Islands , Java , Bali and in Japan and India . From 1973 to 1980 he worked with the avant-garde composer David Tudor . From 1976 to 1980 he worked for the WNET Channel 13 television studio in New York. In 1977 he was invited by Kira Perov to La Trobe University in Melbourne . Kira Perov followed him to New York in 1978 and married him. In 1979 Viola and Perov traveled to the Sahara. 1980/81 they both lived in Japan and studied Zen with Daien Tanaka and then returned to the USA.

In 1990 the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt commissioned Viola to create a permanent video-sound installation for a room in the museum. The opening exhibition saw the world premiere of The Stopping Mind (1991). Four video projectors are used to project rapidly moving, partly blurred and loud noises images of different areas of reality onto four video screens arranged in a square. After the video images suddenly come to a standstill, the viewer, who is within the four screens, hears a voice that speaks a text about human consciousness in monotonous unison. With his impressive installation, Viola gradually leads the viewer to a more intensive perception of the self and the world.

Together with the Ensemble Modern, the Arte editorial team on ZDF commissioned Bill Viola in 1994 with a video of the work "Désert" by Edgar Varèse , which had caused a scandal when it premiered on December 2, 1954 in Paris and for the video production previously at the Hessian Radio was recorded under the direction of Péter Eötvös . In October 1994 the video was shown in front of an audience in Vienna.

In 1995 Viola was invited to design an installation for the United States Pavilion at the 46th Venice Biennale . “Buried Secrets” was then shown in the Kestnergesellschaft , Hanover. In 1997 the retrospective Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey Exhibition , organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, began with exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1997), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1998), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (1999), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999) and the Art Institute Chicago (1999–2000).

Viola has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2000 .

In 2004, Viola, in cooperation with Peter Sellars and Esa-Pekka Salonen, created a new production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde , which was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in December 2004, at the Bastille Opera in Paris in 2005 and at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York 2007 was performed.

Bill Viola lives in Long Beach with his wife Kira Perov and their two children .

Prizes and awards

  • Price of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1989: Media Art Prize of the UKM
  • 1993: Media Art Prize of the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • 2009: Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts
  • 2011: Praemium Imperiale / Art

Bill Viola holds honorary doctorates from Syracuse University (1995), the Art Institute of Chicago (1997), the California Institute of the Arts and Craft, Oklahoma (1998), the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, the California Institute of the Arts , Valencia CA (2000), the University of Sunderland , England (2000), the Royal College of Art London (2004), Columbia College, Chicago (2005), the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (2006) and the University Liege (2011).

Quotes

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“I firmly believe that the real power of people lies in their collective energy. If we tackle something together, we can literally move mountains. "

- Bill Viola (2004)

“The image on the computer monitor is just the top layer of an extensive network of connections and hidden symbolic forms that represent the actual reality of what we see before us. Both worlds, the inner world of the computer and the inner world in which we live, are not visible. "

- Bill Viola (2004)

Works (selection)

  • 1977–1979: The Reflecting Pool , CHOTT el-DJERID (a portrait in light and heat)
  • 1978: The Ancient of Days
  • 1983: An Instrument of Simple Sensation
  • 1983: Room for St. John of the Cross
  • 1983: Anthem
  • 1986: I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
  • 1988: The Sleep of Reason
  • 1989: The City of Man
  • 1991: The Stopping Mind
  • 1992: The Sleepers
  • 1992: Threshold
  • 1992: The Passing
  • 1992: Heaven and Earth
  • 1992: The Arc of Ascent
  • 1992: Nantes Triptych
  • 1993: Tiny Deaths
  • 1994: Pneuma
  • 1994: Stations
  • 1994: Déserts
  • 1995: The Greeting
  • 1995: The Veiling
  • 1996: The Crossing , The Messenger
  • 2000: The World of Appearances
  • 2000: Mary - 2004 to be seen in Visions of America - Contemporary Art from the Essl Collection and the Sonnabend Collection New York , Essl Museum - Art of the Present, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2000: The Quintet of the Silent
  • 2002: Emergence
  • 2002: The Silent Sea - 2004 to be seen in Visions of America - Contemporary Art from the Essl Collection and the Sonnabend Collection New York , Essl Museum - Art of the Present, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2002: Observance - can be seen in the Berlin exhibition Pain in 2007
  • 2002: Going Forth By Day - Guggenheim Berlin (Viola's first production in high definition video)
Part 2. The Path , Part two of the five-part video / sound installation Going Forth By Day , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York.
  • 2003: Five Angels For The Millennium , 5-channel installation ,; RuhrTriennale in the Oberhausen Gasometer
  • 2004: The Raft
  • 2007: Ocean without Shore - 52nd Biennale di Venezia

Exhibitions

In 2016, the installation was expanded to include the video Mary . Both installations are now owned by Tate Modern .
  • 2017: Bill Viola. Rinascimento elettronico. Palazzo Strozzi , Florence
  • 2017: Bill Viola - installations . Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
  • 2018: Bill Viola (Tristan's Ascension, Fire Women). La Nueva Salinas, Ibiza
  • 2019: Bill Viola / Michelangelo. Life Death Rebirth . Royal Academy of Arts , London
  • 2019: Infinite Journey in the Moritzkirche Augsburg for its 1000th anniversary
  • 2019: I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like. The Art of Bill Viola. Barnes , Philadelphia

Publications

  • Statements by the Artist (exh. Cat.). Introduction by Julia Brown. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985.
  • Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994 . Edited by Robert Violette with Bill Viola. Cambridge, Mass .: MIT Press; London: Thames and Hudson; Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1995.

literature

  • Marie Luise Syring : Bill Viola: Unseen Images / Never seen images / Images jamais vues . Texts by Rolf Lauter , Marie Luise Syring and Bill Viola; Interview with the artist Jörg Zutter. Düsseldorf: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 1992/93.
  • Bill Viola. A Twenty-Five-Year Survey . Texts by David A. Ross and Bill Viola; Conversation between Lewis Hyde and Bill Viola. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; Paris: Flammarion. Stuttgart: Cantz, 1999.
  • Rolf Lauter (Ed.): Bill Viola: Europäische Einsichten | European Insights, Werkerspachtungen | Reflections on the Work of Bill Viola. Introduction by Rolf Lauter; Texts Jean-Christophe Ammann , Rolf Lauter, Caterina Maderna , a. a. Munich: Prestel 1999. ISBN 978-3-7913-2067-0
  • Bill Viola: Going Forth by Day . Installations by Bill Viola. New York, Guggenheim Museum, new ed. 2003. ISBN 0-89207-255-5
  • Chris Townsend (Ed.): The Art of Bill Viola . Texts by Cynthia Freeland u. a. London: Thames & Hudson 2005. ISBN 978-0-500-28472-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Art / tapes / 22. Interview with Maria Gloria Bicocchi accessed on October 19, 2016
  2. ↑ Text Folder for video and sound installation by Rolf Lauter in MMK. See the art-historical appraisal by Stefanie Bickel, Bill Viola - The Transformation of Images: The Mysticism in Bill Viola's Video Works , Diploma Thesis Frankfurt 2002, p. 84.
  3. ↑ Bill Viola, Rolf Lauter: Bill Viola: The stopping mind (1991) . Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main 1991 ( worldcat.org [accessed March 5, 2020]).
  4. ↑ A detailed appraisal of this and other spatial installations as well as most of Viola's videotapes can be found in the catalog by Rolf Lauter, Bill Viola - Europäische Einsichten, Werkbedachtungen / European insights, reflections on the work of Bill Viola , Prestel, Munich, published for the retrospective at MMK / New York 1999. ISBN 978-3-7913-2067-0 included.
  5. ^ Rolf Lauter: Bill Viola, a 25 year survey exhibition: Works from 25 years, Museum of Modern Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Römer Town Hall, Dominican Monastery, Deutsche Börse Frankfurt am Main, February 5 to April 25, 1999. ISBN 978-2 -08-013645-9
  6. ^ A pioneer of electronic music , Museum Tinguely, Basel; artsinside, accessed on July 6, 2020
  7. ^ Edgard Varèse / Bill Viola, Intégrales / Ionisation / Déserts. Retrieved February 13, 2020 (French).
  8. ↑ Varese / Viola: "Desert" YouTube, 32 min, accessed on July 6, 2020
  9. ^ Rolf Lauter, Bill Viola: Bill Viola, a 25 year survey exhibition: Works from 25 years, February 5 to April 25, 1999. Museum for Modern Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Römer Town Hall, Dominican Monastery, Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt, Main 1999 ( worldcat.org [accessed February 14, 2020]).
  10. ^ Book of Members. (PDF) Retrieved July 23, 2016 (English).
  11. ↑ billviola.com, accessed January 13, 2013
  12. ↑ Praemium Imperiale for…. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. July 12, 2011, p. B4
  13. ↑ Awards , accessed October 19, 2016.
  14. ^ Viola - Ancient Of Days (1979), YouTube
  15. ↑ Video
  16. ^ Rolf Lauter: Room for St. John of the Cross: Bill Viola: European insights, work considerations. European insights, reflections on the work of Bill Viola . Prestel, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2067-X ( worldcat.org [accessed March 5, 2020]).
  17. ↑ Rolf Lauter: Bill Viola - I do not know what it is I am like: Bill Viola: European insights, work considerations. European insights, reflections on the work of Bill Viola . Ed .: Rolf Lauter. Prestel, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2067-X ( worldcat.org [accessed March 5, 2020]).
  18. ^ Rolf Lauter: Bill Viola: European insights, work considerations. European insights, reflections on the work of Bill Viola . Ed .: Rolf Lauter. Prestel, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2067-X ( worldcat.org [accessed March 5, 2020]).
  19. ^ Rolf Lauter: Bill Viola European insights, work considerations, catalog book for the exhibition: Bill Viola: Works from 25 years . Ed .: Rolf Lauter. Prestel, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2067-X ( worldcat.org [accessed March 5, 2020]).
  20. ↑ Rolf Lauter, Bill Viola - The Passing: Bill Viola: unseen images, never seen images, images jamais vues, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf December 19, 1992 - February 28, 1993 . Ed .: Marie Luise Syring. Meyer, Düsseldorf 1992 ( worldcat.org [accessed March 5, 2020]).
  21. ↑ Collection Indianapolis Museum of Art , accessed November 22, 2018.
  22. ^ Video tape, commissioned by the J. Paul Getty Museum
  23. ↑ Video on YouTube
  24. ^ Five Angels for the Millennium, 2001 Tate, accessed November 22, 2018
  25. ^ Bill Viola - Ocean Without a Shore - Venice Biennale 2007
  26. ↑ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on April 29, 2014.
  27. ↑ Die Märtyrer in FAZ from June 2, 2014, page 9
  28. ^ Bill Viola: Martyrs. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  29. ↑ Collector Lio Malca exhibits two video works by Bill Viola in Ibiza , accessed on July 1, 2018.
  30. ↑ Bill Viola Exhibition in London: Living, Dying and Transcendence , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, accessed on July 6, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Viola, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American video and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH new York