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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.
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.
Bill Viola's Room for St. John of the Cross: A Video Installarion Viewed within the Tradition of Visual Art.
Feb 5, 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.
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Aug 10, 2021 · This video and sound installation by Bill Viola, ‘Room for St John of the Cross’, speaks of the concept of time in a number of different ways. It consists of a black cubicle in the centre of a darkened space.
1983. Crea l’installazione Room for St. John of the Cross, ispirata alla vita di san Giovanni della Croce, mistico e poeta spagnolo del XVI secolo.
