{"identifier":"AH-Bill_6312236719112","browse_author":"Gerald Fox (Director), Melvin Bragg (Producer) and Arthaus Music - Monarda Arts (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_visartssch"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350921511,"description":"This powerful documentary follows the world\u2019s most influential video artist Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov over a twelve-year period as they undertake and complete the installation of two permanent video works, Mary and Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) in St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral in London. In documenting Viola\u2019s approach, the award-winning arts documentary director Gerald Fox captures the essence of Viola\u2019s creative process, along with the significant changes that occur in these two figures over the lengthy time period. He also looks back at the career of this seminal artist, who since the early 1970s has taken video art to a new level of acceptance in contemporary art. Bill Viola is an American video and installation artist known for exploring themes of spirituality and existential introspection. In his work The Crossing (1996), Viola\u2019s interest in technology as a means to convey mysticism is externalized. Using a double-sided projection screen, the artist displays a torrent of water falling upon and covering a figure, followed in the video loop by the same figure being engulfed in flames. \u201cThe fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities,\u201d he once reflected. \u201cFor me the essential basis of video is the movement\u2014something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.\u201d Born on January 25, 1951 in New York, NY, he received his BFA in experimental studio art in 1973 from Syracuse University. Throughout his career, Viola has employed ever newer technologies to create electronic music, video installations, and television broadcasts. For the Venice Biennale in 1995, Viola created The Greeting, a video that reinterprets the 16th-century Italian artist Pontormo\u2019s religious painting, Visitation (1528-1529), into a secular drama of similar intensity. Viola currently lives and works in Long Beach, CA. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, among others.Director and Producer: Gerald Fox; Cinematography: Simon Fanthorpe and Steve Haskett; Editing: John Street; Producer: Melvyn Bragg; Sound: Peter Hodges and Percy Urgena; Music: Nigel Horn Language - English Subtitles: German & English","videoId":6312236719112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_visartssch","title":"Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's","xml_source":"bvl_visartssch_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"AH-Bill","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/9f606f2b-127c-442a-bcdd-bd7450d23ced/52c16024-a37a-455c-a255-98a21c809f19/1280x720/match/image.jpg","facets":"appliedArt , Applied art , fineArt , Fine art , digitalArtInstallation , Digital art installation , art , Art , digitalArt , Digital Art , artsAndLiterature , Arts and literature , _19701979 , 1970\u20131979 , _19801989 , 1980\u20131989 , _19901999 , 1990\u20131999 , _19001999 , 1900\u20131999 , made_20102019 , 2010\u20132019 , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present , english , English , northAmerica , North America , unitedStates , United States , origin_europe , Europe , origin_unitedKingdom , United Kingdom , video , Video ,","contenttypeorder":3,"date_of_publication":2017,"publisher":"Arthaus Music - Monarda Arts","productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"AH-Bill","facet":["_19001999","_19701979","_19801989","_19901999","appliedArt","art","artsAndLiterature","digitalArt","digitalArtInstallation","english","fineArt","made_2000Present","made_20102019","northAmerica","origin_europe","origin_unitedKingdom","unitedStates","video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Gerald Fox~Melvin Bragg~Arthaus Music - Monarda Arts"}