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Indepth Arts News:
"BILL VIOLA"
2000-09-15 until 2000-12-07
Detroit Institute of Art
Detroit, MI,
USA
This exhibition presents the work of Los Angeles artist Bill Viola featuring three
video installations, as well as working drawings and other examples. Viola is
widely acknowledged as a leading video artist on the international scene. His
installations – total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound –
employ sophisticated state-of-the-art technologies distinguished by their precision
and direct simplicity.
Viola’s single channel works have been distributed and
broadcast around the world. The installation Nine Attempts to Achieve Immortality
is a highlight, along with the premier of his latest work, Eternal Return.
Bill Viola is the DIA’s contribution to an area-wide collaboration titled VideoCulture: Three Decades of Video Art. This
first-of-a-kind effort joins the forces of 11 museums, galleries and arts and educational organizations in metropolitan Detroit to
examine video art and its impact on contemporary culture.
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