https://youtu.be/RQi1yOnGEvs
Friday, February 3, 2017
Blog Post #2
Five Angels in the Millennium by Bill Viola are several large scaled video installations projected on a wall in a gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany. Each video has a male model interacting with water in slow motion. Each video also represents an angel; the birthing angel, fire angel, ascending angel, creation angel, and departing angel. Sound echos in the installation because of the large size of the gasometer, creating the water sounds from the video to get the viewer of feeling submerged as well. This is an act that Viola often does to his viewers with his work. The gasometer reminded Viola an experience in a church and he hoped to give his viewers the same experience. Here is a link of video of Bill Viola speaking about his work.
https://youtu.be/RQi1yOnGEvs
https://youtu.be/RQi1yOnGEvs
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How do you feel about the way Viola's work transforms the space in which it is installed? Do you have any reservations about this type of transformation or do you support it? And why? Can you begin to articulate, as an aspiring artist, why you might or might not be in displaying work in a similar way?
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