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ビル・ヴィオラ氏が逝去されました．

謹んでお悔やみを申し上げます．

ICCでは， 1975年から1994年までの作品集を含むヴィデオ作品17点と本人のドキュメンタリー映像1点をコレクションとして収蔵し，館内HIVEコーナーにて公開しています．https://t.co/9xM8CL8gby
— NTT ICC (@NTTICC) 2024年7月14日

Chloe Veltman "Trailblazing video artist Bill Viola dies at 73" https://www.npr.org/2024/07/13/nx-s1-5038670/video-artist-bill-viola-dead

７月12日、ヴィデオ・アーティストのビル・ヴィオラ *1がカリフォルニア州ロング・ビーチの自宅にて息を引き取った。享年73歳。氏はアルツハイマー病を患っていた。
師匠筋の白南準*2とともに、ヴィデオ・インスタレーションというジャンルとビル・ヴィオラという人名を重ねてしまう人も（私を含めて）多いんじゃないだろうか。
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After graduating from Syracuse University in 1973, Viola created experimental artworks across a variety of media, including video and sound installations, electronic music performances, and works for television broadcast. His use of technology that was advanced for the time established Viola as a leader in the burgeoning field of video art.
"The subjects that he has broached in his work for decades — birth, death, the human condition — courageously addressed with intensity, purity and directness," gallerist Cheryl Haines, who worked on a project with Viola, told NPR. "Along with Nam June Paik, he was one of the pioneers."
Born in 1951, he grew up in Queens and Westbury, N.Y. His illustrious career included representing the U.S. at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and being the subject of a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum two years later.

Viola’s art focused on the metaphysical self. Often working with multiple large video screens showing actors moving in extreme slow motion, Viola’s ruminations on fundamental human themes like grief and spirituality were immersive and hypnotic.

See also

Charles Darwent*3 “Bill Viola obituary” https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/jul/14/bill-viola-obituary
美術手帖「ビル・ヴィオラが73歳で逝去。ヴィデオ・アートの第一人者」https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/959d03616adff848dda286f568a4c0518b00a48b

*1:https://www.billviola.com/ See eg. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Viola