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Bill Viola, Study for The Path — permanent video installation - Basilica of San Marco, Milan
a project by ©artache, 2008 Courtesy Marta Fiocchi ©Bill Viola, 2002 all right reserved; Photo Claudio Abate
Bill Viola, Study for The Path — permanent video installation - Basilica of San Marco, Milan
a project by ©artache, 2008 Courtesy Marta Fiocchi ©Bill Viola, 2002 all right reserved; Photo Claudio Abate
Bill Viola, Study for The Path — permanent video installation - Basilica of San Marco, Milan
a project by ©artache, 2008 Courtesy Marta Fiocchi ©Bill Viola, 2002 all right reserved; Photo Claudio Abate
detail of sarcophagus located in the southern transept of the Basilica of San Marco
Photo Claudio Abate
detail of sarcophagus located in the southern transept of the Basilica of San Marco,
the tree of life as a source of immortality — Photo Claudio Abate
Bill Viola, Study for The Path — permanent video installation at the Basilica of San Marco, Milan
a project by ©artache 2008 — courtesy Marta Fiocchi ©Bill Viola, 2002 all right reserved; Photo Claudio Abate
Bill Viola, Study for The Path — permanent video installation at the Basilica of San Marco, Milan
a project by ©artache 2008 — courtesy Marta Fiocchi ©Bill Viola, 2002 all right reserved; Photo Claudio Abate
Bill Viola, Study for The Path — permanent video installation at the Basilica of San Marco, Milan
a project by ©artache 2008 — courtesy Marta Fiocchi ©Bill Viola, 2002 all right reserved; Photo Claudio Abate
Bill Viola, Study for The Path — permanent video installation at the Basilica of San Marco, Milan
a project by ©artache 2008 — courtesy Marta Fiocchi ©Bill Viola, 2002 all right reserved; Photo Claudio Abate
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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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