He breathed his last at the age of 73 on Friday, July 12, o Bill Violaan artist who gave the new genre of visual art an infinite sense of beauty and age spirituality.
The cause of his death was complications from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, said his wife Kira Perov.
Who was Bill Viola?
Bill Viola was born in 1951 and is internationally recognized as one of the leading artists of today. He was involved in establishing vision as a vital form of contemporary art and helped to greatly expand its scope in terms of technology, material and historical scope.
Ocean Without a Shore, 2007, installation view, San Gallo Church, Venice, Italy. Photo: Thierry Bal
Bill Viola received a BA in experimental studios from Syracuse University in 1973, where he studied visual arts with Jack Nelson and electronic music with Franklin Morris.
Over the past 40 years he has created videos, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, flat screen video footage and works for television broadcasts. Bill Viola’s works are exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.
Peter Sellar’s production of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, with a 4-hour video performance by Bill Viola Premiere, Opéra National de Paris, 2005. Photo: Ruth Walz
Viola’s art attempts to explore the phenomena of perception as a means of self-awareness. His works focus on universal human experiences, such as birth, death, the unfolding of consciousness, and are rooted in Eastern and Western art, as well as spiritual traditions such as Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and Christian mysticism.
The art historian and critic, Dorothea Kondelezidou, wrote about the great artist’s death:
“The rest
The end of an era for a unique artist of the 20th century who more than anyone else gave us the art of visual art that has been copied so much.
Bill Viola (1951-2024).
When she started producing videos, Viola wanted to create something, like a scientist. ” He approached the creative process with video art as a “controlled experiment” in which he used the camera to capture carefully crafted images and narratives. However, as technology improved, he realized that the approach should be fundamentally the opposite: that it would adapt to the new possibilities that the technological development of the medium promoted and that it would be spontaneous, at engage with life experiences rather than choreograph them. Instead of creating video in the controlled environment of the studio, Viola began a career practice of stepping outside the studio, opening his camera, and opening his work to the spontaneity – and routine – of the real world. “
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