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Copyright Bill Viola / James Cohen Gallery, NY | | | Viola, Bill (1951 - ) USA
ILVapore, 1975
Mixed Media 0 x 0 cm Video Art
UID 102-603
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Biography
American video artist who, until 1973, studied at the College of Visual Arts, Syracuse University, in New York. Between 1973 and 1980, he joined Cunnhingham and Tudor in the execution of the project, Rainforest. In 1974 he exhibited his installation video The Kitchen, for the first time, in New York and was technical director of Art/Tapes/22, in Florence until 1976. In 1977, he took part in Documenta 6 in Kassel; in 1980-81 he was in Japan and, in 1981, he settled in Long Beach. In 1983, he had a one-man show at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris; in 1987 a major retrospective at the New York Museum of Modern Art and, in 1992, at the Kunsthalle de Düsseldorf. In the same year, he took part in Documenta 9 in Kassel and, in 1995, at the Venice Biennale. Bill Viola explores the various technical capacities of modern media, using this technology for his own artistic ends. Thematically, Viola has been relatively constant throughout his career, focusing on the basic human experiences of birth and death. His installations ask spectators to reflect upon their own perception and their ability to be aware, managing to adapt video technique to the complex structure of human mechanisms.
Exhibitions
Bill Viola: The Sleep of Reason Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, France 01-01-1990 ~ 31-12-1990
Mediações IAC - Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, Portugal 01-03-1997 ~ 30-03-1997
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 09-09-2007
Allgarve 2008 Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Portugal 12-06-2008 ~ 07-09-2008
Fragmentos Arte Contemporânea na Colecção Berardo MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal 24-09-2010 ~ 23-01-2011
Bibliography
Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes, 1987 Published by The Museum of Modern Art
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
Dispossessed Installations, 1992 Published by Florida State University Gallery and Museum
Jorge Molder, Algún Tempo Antes, 2006 Published by Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea ISBN 8445342398
Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Diário de Notícias ISBN 9729335923
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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