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Room for St. John of the Cross. Inspired by the life and poems of San Juan de la Cruz, a 16th century Spanish poet and mystic, the video installation presents a monastic room, with recordings of whispered St. John's poems, and focuses on spiritual search and issues of faith.
Texto descriptivo de Room for St. John of the Cross, 1983. Un cúmulo de símbolos e ideas “escondidas” en esta instalación que lleva en nombre de un español, San Juan de la Cruz, un poeta y místico que fue un reformador pionero en la orden Carmelita y discípulo de Santa Teresa de Ávila.
Room Dimensions: 168 x 288 x 360 in. (426.7 x 731.5 x 914.4 cm) Credit. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The El Paso Natural Gas Company Fund for California Art. Established in 1979, we are the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles.
5 de feb. de 2020 · The artist’s interests and developments culminated in Room for St. John of the Cross, a 1983 installation based on the life of a 16th century Spanish Catholic mystic, poet and saint, which served as the centrepiece of Viola’s 1985 MoMA retrospective.
Bill Viola's Room for St. John of the Cross: A Video Installarion Viewed within the Tradition of Visual Art.
Room for St. John of the Cross is dedicated to the sixteenth-century mystical Spanish poet who was a follower of St. Theresa, the radical Catholic prioress who sought to return the Carmelite order to austerity, prayer, and contemplation.
Inicio > Artistas > V > Bill Viola > Obra > Sus obras > Room for St. John of the Cross Room for St. John of the Cross En el centro de un gran espacio oscuro encontramos un oscuro cubículo. A través de su ventana se ve el interior iluminado, donde hay un monitor de vídeo a color, un pitcher de metal y un vaso de agua sobre una mesa de madera.
