Bill Viola’s Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier

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Fri, Nov 22, 2024
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
2024-11-22T11:00:00-05:00
2024-11-22T18:00:00-05:00
Asheville Art Museum
2 S Pack Square, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
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Bill Viola’s Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier, 1979 on loan from Art Bridges is an immersive experience that explores the ideas of death and regeneration in nature. In a darkened room, sounds from nature envelop the viewer, as a placid pool of water reflects a projected image of Mount Rainier onto a screen. The water is periodically disturbed, causing the image to dissolve and slowly recompose as the pool settles. As an active volcano at rest, Mount Rainier embodies both quiet beauty and dramatic violence. Using time as both a tool and a theme in his work, Viola visualizes the dualities of nature’s rhythms of renewal, which include moments of both fragility and strength.