now until February 2, 2009 // Haunch of Venison Berlin // Berlin, Germany
Haunch of Venison Berlin presents a series of works from Bill Viola, in his first solo exhibition in Berlin in six years. The exhibition includes the large-scale video/sound installation The Messenger (1996) originally commissioned for Durham Cathedral by the Chaplaincy to the Arts and Recreation, North East England. It depicts the continual rising and sinking of a male figure as he slowly journeys between a blue-black underwater realm and the bright daylight of the world above its surface.
New works will also be presented from the Transfigurations series–a cyclical progression of images that describe a series of encounters at the intersection between life and death. The first in this series was the three channel installation Ocean Without a Shore (2007) created for the 52nd Venice Biennale. In Berlin the works shown will be single and multiple channel pieces, with one piece, Small Saints (2008), using six tiny OLED screens, a new technology with special luminance.
No comments:
Post a Comment