Bill Viola Purification
Installation
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Bill Viola is a pioneer in video art. He revolutionized the genre by exploring, quite early, the possibilities offered by digital technology. Over the last few decades, he developed his typical style characterised by his admiration for the great masters of ancient painting. His installations immerse the viewer in a contemplative universe, imbued with mysticism, in which the human figure occupies a central place.
Purification, a double projection created for Peter Sellars' staging of Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde in 2005, offers a perfect synthesis of all these elements. With extreme slowed-down movements, a couple performs a purification ritual, which evokes a rebirth. As the artist described it himself: "From the very beginning, I did not intend to create images but to look for the origin of things, people and situations. So I started to write down what I had in mind, and then it became quite simple to move forward. I plunged deeper and deeper into the booklet, which resulted in all these images.”
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![Marcel Broodthaers, The Eye (1965), © The Estate of Marcel Broodthaers c/o SABAM, Belgium, MRBAB, Bruxelles / photo : J. Geleyns - Art Photography]](/uploads/exhibitions/images/broodthaers_600x600_small@2x.jpg "Marcel Broodthaers, The Eye (1965), © The Estate of Marcel Broodthaers c/o SABAM, Belgium, MRBAB, Bruxelles / photo : J. Geleyns - Art Photography]")
