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MILAN

basilica di san marco

2008

 

Study for

The Path

 

BILL VIOLA (2002)

 

 

How does one express through a new technology the inexorable, placid, eternal march of time? How does one show the path of life which combines human beings, in an equal but different way?

By setting a work in a place which contains proofs of a passing: from life to death,

and from death to life. By making it ‘converse’ with other narrative projects, almost as

if they were all sequences in the same story.

 

 

 

with  thanks to

 

Basilica di San Marco

Monsignor Luigi Testore

 

Don Luigi Garbini

 

Bill Viola e Kira Perov

Bill Viola Studio

 

Marta Fiocchi

 

photo

Claudio Abate

 

 

 

video setup

Omero Porta

 

preparation

Architect

Franco Raggi

 

artache

Stefania Morellato

Graziella Bertolini

Gianluca Ranzi

By setting Study for The Path inside the Basilica of S.Marco, Milan now has two public spaced devoted to a permanent video art installation. Both are places of worship.

 

Study for The Path was a study for the creation of Going Forth By Day (2002), a projected image cycle in five parts:

1 Fire Birth, 2 The Path, 3 The Deluge, 4 The Voyage, 5 First Light

 

It is the time of the summer solstice high in the mountains. The early morning light reveals a steady stream of people moving along a path through the forest. They come from all walks of life, each travelling the path at their own pace

in their own unique way. There is no beginning or end to the procession of individuals – they have been walking long before we see them here, and they will be walking long after they leave our view. The constant flow of people suggests no apparent order or sequence. As travellers on the road, they move in an intermediate space between two worlds.

A small marker in the forest grants them safe passage through this vulnerable state. (Bill Viola)

 

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