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Room for St. John of the Cross: Directed by Bill Viola. With Francesc Torres Iturrioz. 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.
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.
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.
Bill Viola's Room for St. John of the Cross: A Video Installarion Viewed within the Tradition of Visual Art | Video History Project.
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Room for St. John of the Cross. 1983. Medium. Video/sound installation. Accession number. 87.2. Dimensions. 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.
