For those with a chance to get to Canberra in the next four months, I highly recommend taking a walk through Bill Viola‘s video and sound installation , “The Passions”, at the National Gallery of Australia.
You can preview “The Passions” at the web site prepared for it.
I walked through his exhibition in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1999 – it was a life changing experience for me. The exhibition is no longer running live but can be ‘postviewed’ here.
The images to the right are from Montage-A-Google
Official Notice
The National Gallery of Australia presents Bill Viola: The Passions, a mesmerising exhibition of recent works by the internationally-renowned American video and sound installation artist. Organised by the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, then shown in London and Madrid, Bill Viola: The Passions is on display in Canberra only, from 29 July until 6 November. As well as 12 works from The Passions series, the exhibition includes Five Angels for the Millennium 2001, an all-enveloping environment of sight and sound.