Bill Viola: Surrender

• Reference:GB 2610 GMA A79
• Dates of Creation:2001
• Physical Description:
  1 item

• Scope and Content

  Archive ring-binder box; containing a certificate of authenticity and instructions held in transparent wallets for GMA 4683, 'Surrender', 2001.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Bill Viola was born in New York in 1951. He attended Syracuse University, and worked as a video technician after he graduated. His focus on the audio as well as visual aspects of art was influenced by the period he studied with the composer David Tudor and the Composers Inside Electronic Group. Now known as a video artist, he uses contemporary technology to depict intense emotion, without providing any explanation or context for these depictions. His 1976 work 'The Space Between the Teeth' shows himself screaming. Viola also often uses extreme slow-motion, as in 'The Quintet Series' of 2000, which shows the expressions of five actors in such slow motion that the expressions themselves become almost unidentifiable. Viola's approach became broader and less dependent on technological intervention in the early 1990s, and often references Renaissance paintings.

• Access Information

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• Conditions Governing Use

  All material is subject to copyright restrictions. Requests to reproduce original material should be made to the National Galleries of Scotland’s Image Licensing team (https://www.nationalgalleries.org/copyright-image-licensing)

• Custodial History

  Presented by Anne & Anthony d'Offay through the Art Fund 2003

• Related Material

  The SNGMA Collection holds Viola's 'Surrender', 2001 (GMA 4683)