Artist Bill Viola has died. The trailblazing creator of monumental video works died Friday at his home in Long Beach, Calif., of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. He was 73.
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Viola’s art focused on the metaphysical self. Often working with multiple large video screens showing actors moving in extreme slow motion, Viola’s ruminations on fundamental human themes like grief and spirituality were immersive and hypnotic. "The one thing the video camera gave that a pen, pencil and paper or brush and canvas didn't, was the ability to look at the real world with an open eye, and to record events as they were occurring," said ViolaAfter graduating from Syracuse University in 1973, Viola created experimental artworks across a variety of media, including video and sound installations, electronic music performances, and works for television broadcast.
"The subjects that he has broached in his work for decades — birth, death, the human condition — courageously addressed with intensity, purity and directness," galleristBorn in 1951, he grew up in Queens and Westbury, N.Y. His illustrious career included representing the U.S. at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and being the subject of a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum two years later.
"Bill Viola, like Raphael or Michelangelo, has come up with an image of the scale and scope and grandeur and immensity and genuine transcendence that Wagner was imagining," said Sellars in
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