Bill Viola

With twenty masterly works - hours of video on fifty screens - Bill Viola in the Grand Palais is one of the largest retrospectives of the work of this artist. Bill Viola's oeuvre has been shown and celebrated in the world's greatest museums: a first retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York in 1997, the MOMA in New York, the National Gallery in London, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Berlin, New York)... All that was missing was a retrospective in France, where, although little of his work is on display in the national museums, Bill Viola was acknowledged early on as a major artist (shows in the Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris in 1983, the Fondation Cartier in 1990, the Musee de Nantes in 1992, and the Festival d'automne in 1996).
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