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BILL VIOLA – NEW EXHIBITION – FRUSTRATED ACTIONS AND FUTILE GESTURES
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'Biography' presents a wide selection of works from Elmgreen & Dragset's complex universe, including sculpture, performance and interactive installations. Works from the late 1990s onwards will be shown together with recent projects, ...
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Video artist Bill Viola opened a show at Blain Southern. The exhibition called Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures has three parts. The works are powerful and are related to death, futility and a certain despair and loneliness.

Dreamers depict portraits of people seeming to sleep underwater, while there is in the background a music sound. The peace and calm on their faces makes it more difficult to see where the sleep ends and death begins, therefore creating a tension.

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‘Viola has become the Rembrandt of the video age, an artist who has done more than any of his contemporaries to advance the emotional and aesthetic content of his medium’. – Laura Cumming
In Frustrated Actions, the second part, in one of his videos, a man is pulling a cart up the hill, reminding of Sisyphus and his futile gesture. He takes the time he needs to do this, thus creating suspense as you look at him, not knowing whether he will succeed or if, like in the myth, he will have to start all over again.
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Working as an artist for forty years, Bill Viola got to change what he understand through video art. He is today one of the leading artists and he is interested in the way this medium can express his interest in themes like birth, death, futility. What is leading in his works is his universality in the themes and in the way he chooses to express them.
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In Angel at the Door a man hears a knocking at the door. The viewer’s curiosity grows as he reaches for the door. Amazement – there is nobody. The action repeats, and at the end there is a mirror reflecting the man himself.

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Angel at the Door
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Exhibition view
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The third part, Mirage, has four videos that were filmed in an area called El Mirage and where some distant forms are coming towards the camera, and from distorted and strange shapes they become more and more visible.

Bill Viola: Inner Passage on Nowness.com

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