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When video artist Bill Viola was 6 years old he fell into a lake, all the way to the bottom, to a place which seemed like paradise. "There's more than just the surface of life." Viola explains. "The real things are under the surface". American Bill Viola (born 1951) is a pioneer in video art. In this interview, Viola talks about his development as an artist and his most important breakthroughs. As a child Bill Viola felt that the world inside his head was more real than the o

This exhibition brings together two artists – born centuries apart – who explore the same universal themes with works of transcendent beauty and raw emotional power. In 2006, pioneering video artist Bill Viola saw the finest of a collection of these drawings at Windsor Castle, and was astonished by the Renaissance master’s expressive use of the body to convey emotional and spiritual states. Although created in a radically different medium, Viola’s own works also grapple with

From March 10 to July 23,  2017 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi will be presenting Electronic Renaissance, a retrospective of work by  Bill Viola. A single, comprehensive exhibition occupying both the Piano Nobile and the Strozzina will immerse the viewer in space, music and sound as the exhibition tracks Viola's career from his early experimental work in the 1970s through his recent installations. Exploring spirituality, experience and perception, Viola probes humanity: peop