BILL VIOLA
Bill
Viola is a video artists who born in 1951, he is consider a pioneer in video
art. When Bill Viola was 6 years old he felt into a lake all the way to the
bottom, which for him was seemed like a paradise. Viola says “There’s more than
just the surface of the life” “The real things are under the surface.”
As
a child Viola felt that the world inside his head was more real than the
outside world. When Viola discovered video was in 1969. Where he says that the
blue light from the first camera that he experienced remained him of the water
from the beautiful lake where he almost died in when he was 6. Viola used to
felt that home videos should be kept separate to his artwork, but after the
death of his mother’s and the difficulty of understanding this transition of
life disappearance, he slowly changed his point of view realizing that things
could not be kept separate. For Viola “Cameras are soul keeper”. Where people
will play this videos probably five, ten or even hundreds years from now,
because this media will continue to evolve until is gone. For him cameras hold
our life making us humans think that what we see is something is real or even though
it doesn’t exist anymore.
“Nantes
Triptych” was created in 1992 this was Viola video artwork where he take the
form of the triptych, usually used in western art for religious painting to
present through the video his contemporary form of spiritual iconography. The
three panels of Viola triptych shows a video footage of birth on the left, in
the middle he shows a body floating in water and on the right side he shows the
death of his mother. This three footage are accompanied by a soundtrack of
crying, water movement and breathing in a 30 minute loop.
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