2024-07-15 10:13:23
“The most crucial place where my work exists is not in a museum, a theater, television, or even a screen, but in the hearts of the viewers who see it.” (From an interview with the late Bill Viola)
American video art master Bill Viola passed away on the 12th at the age of 73.
Viola, who had been battling Alzheimer’s disease, passed away peacefully at her home in Long Beach, California, according to her family and collaborator Kira Perov.
While numerous art world figures and fellow artists expressed their condolences to the deceased, Korean art master Lee Ufan, who collaborated with Viola, expressed his deep condolences, saying, “My friend Bill Viola, the great pioneer who elevated video to a higher level of art, will shine brightly for a long time.”
Bill Viola, born in Queens, New York in 1951, studied at the Experimental Studio Department at Syracuse University in 1973.
Bill Viola has consistently explored the universal human experience of birth and death, and has been recognized as a pioneer in the fields of new media, video, and installation art. His work, rooted in Eastern and Western art as well as spiritual traditions such as Zen Buddhism, Sufism of Islam, and mysticism of Christianity, raises philosophical and fundamental questions about human life while expanding the possibilities of the visual medium.
In particular, he focused on the theme of temporality and transformed it into art, thereby changing the perception of video art in general. He is famous for his slow motion technique using high-speed filming. By artificially slowing down the speed of time and visualizing its flow, he led people to think about the invisible inner world and changed perception and cognition.
In 2004, he was invited to the Greek Olympics to present commissioned works, and in 2014 and 2016, he created two works, ‘Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)’ and ‘Mary’, for St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. These are the first cases of video works being permanently installed in an Anglican cathedral in the UK.
He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1989, the Skowhegan Medal in 1993, the XXI Catalonia International Prize in 2009, and the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association in 2011.
He worked as Nam June Paik’s assistant and once said, “It was an honor to work with Nam June Paik.” He became known in Korea through Kukje Gallery. He held solo exhibitions at Kukje Gallery in 2003, 2008, and 2015.
Meanwhile, Kukje Gallery announced that it will hold Bill Viola’s solo exhibition at its Seoul branch in November and will reexamine his innovative video art works that have explored fundamental and existential themes of life and death and the journey throughout his life.
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