Bill Viola

05 de dez. de 1979

01 de jan. de 1981

Viola experimental short

06 de ago. de 1983

Created by Bill Viola and Kira Perov and opened in May 2014, Martyrs shows four individuals, across four colour vertical plasma screens, being mart...

05 de jan. de 2014

A four-hour plus video production inspired by Richard Wagner's oeuvre "Tristan und Isolde" and projected during the opera premiere in Paris, in par...

03 de dez. de 2004

A small crowd of people are gathered in wait when they are suddenly struck by a massive onslaught of water.

01 de mai. de 2004

Ancient of Days is a remarkable series of "canons and fugues for video" that comprises Viola's most sophisticated structural and metaphorical explo...

12 de out. de 1982

Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple operatic...

11 de set. de 2018

One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history, time...

01 de jan. de 1977

"I Do Not Know What It Is that I Am Like" juxtaposes images of animals, both wild and domestic, and natural environments with human activity as it ...

12 de jun. de 1986

Internationally acclaimed and award-winning video installation artist Bill Viola juxtaposes personal pictures of his mother's death with images of ...

31 de jan. de 1992

Offering a series of encounters at the intersection between life and death, the work documents a succession of people slowly emerging out of darkne...

01 de jan. de 2007

A documentary short in Chott el-Djerid.

01 de jan. de 1979

The three panels of Bill Viola’s triptych show video footage of birth (on the left), death (on the right) and a metaphorical journey between the tw...

01 de jan. de 1992

01 de out. de 1994

Migration is an analysis of an image, a metaphorical exercise in perception and representation, illusion and reality, microcosm and macrocosm, natu...

01 de jan. de 1976

A series of shots depicting "America" are laid over a classic Gregorian Chant recreated through the distortion of a woman's screams.

01 de jan. de 1983

Inspired by a painting of the Visitation (1528-29) by the Italian artist Pontormo, The Greeting is a video image sequence involving the interaction...

01 de jan. de 1995

This diptych opens with the image of two parallel streams of falling water. A female torso moves into the background of the left screen while a mal...

10 de jul. de 2005

The ascent of the soul in the space after death as it is awakened and drawn up in a backwards flowing waterfall.

01 de jan. de 2005

Viola describes Moonblood as "an expression of the feminine principle, a work in three parts relating to a personal concept of woman and mother. Da...

16 de abr. de 1979

01 de jan. de 2003

A man is stands under a steadily growing stream of water, while simultaneously being engulfed in flames on another screen.

Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) consists of four plasma screens, each showing a single figure who is progressively overwhelmed by the onslaught o...

05 de mar. de 2014

Writes Viola: "A succession of individual images focusing on mortality, decay and disintegration, are delineated by long, slow fades to black. The ...

01 de set. de 1992

2005. Video/sound installation. Performer: Robin Bonaccorsi.

01 de jan. de 2005

Silent Life records the first hours and days of life through a series of portraits of newborn babies in a hospital nursery. The alienating hospital...

16 de abr. de 1986

The hands of three generations are seen in this work – a young boy, father, mother and grandmother. Slowly and deliberately, the four pairs of hand...

11 de jul. de 2001

Part of Bill Viola’s Transfiguration series, The Innocents explores the presence of the dead in the world of the living. The video documents a boy ...

08 de ago. de 2008

In this work's left panel, The Crossing (1996), a walking male figure is consumed by fire on a 27-foot vertical plasma screen projection while in t...

01 de jul. de 1996

The title of Vegetable Memory derives from the writings of Jalaludin Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet. Evolving as what Viola terms a "kind of tem...

16 de abr. de 1980

Slowly Turning Narrative includes two projections on a large central rotating screen. One presents images of virtually everything that constitutes ...

01 de jan. de 1992