October Issue 2001
NC Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, Debuts First Video Installation
The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, will exhibit Bill Viola's Quintet of Remembrance, the first video installation in the Museum's permanent collection, beginning Oct. 5. Depicting five people reacting with awe, fear, grief or resignation to an unseen, unspecified event, The Quintet of Remembrance, (2000) will be presented on a 50-inch plasma screen in the Museum's European Galleries.
"We hope the unusual context for The Quintet of Remembrance,will make plain the strong connection between this very contemporary work and Old Master religious painting," said John Coffey, the Museum's deputy director for collections and programs. "Indicative of Viola's interest in art history, Quintet was inspired by works whose figures stand witness to dramatic events such as the Crucifixion, their gestures and faces communicating a range of individual responses."
Recognized as one of the pioneers of video art, Bill Viola began experimenting with the medium in 1970 as an undergraduate in the College of the Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. As technology became more sophisticated, so did his in all its forms, including single-monitor displays, pieces for presentation on multiple screens, video projections and complete environments that envelop the viewer in a world of image, light and sound. In "The Quintet of Remembrance,"and other works, Viola uses advanced media technology to create poetic explorations of perception and time, generating dreamlike dramas out of ordinary activities by presenting them in extreme slow motion.
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