Some Times
dal 18/3/2008 al 5/7/2008
Segnalato da
18/3/2008
Some Times
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Nan Hoover/Bill Viola. The exhibition presents a precise selection of photographs and video works by the two acclaimed American artists, whose main themes since the beginning of their artistic careers have been light and movement and the visualization of time, capturing the flow of time and seemingly freezing it. While Viola has exerted significant influence on other artists with his spectacular scenarious, Hoover's work has left its mark on young artists mainly through her teaching at the Duesseldorf Arts Academy.
curated by René Schmitt
“Some Times” presents a precise selection of photographs and video works by the
two acclaimed American artists, whose main themes since the beginning of their
artistic careers have been light and movement and the visualization of time,
capturing the flow of time and seemingly freezing it. While Bill Viola, who is 20
years younger than Hoover, has gained international fame with his technically
elaborate, sometimes disturbing video installations, the career of Nan Hoover,
who now lives in Berlin, has progressed more quietly despite numerous exhibitions
in international galleries and museums – a difference which can also be said to
characterize the two artists’ individual approaches.
While Bill Viola has exerted significant influence on other artists with his
spectacular scenarious, Nan Hoover’s work has left its mark on young artists mainly
through her teaching at the Duesseldorf Arts Academy, where she succeeded Nam
June Paik as professor. She also taught the newly established media art class at the
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg.
The exhibition “Some Times” features five projections of the video artist Bill
Viola: “Information” (1973, color, mono, 29.35 min.), “Memory Surface and
Mental Prayers” (1977, compilation of video films, color, mono, total duration:
28 min.), “Chott el-Djerid – A Portrait in Light and Heat” (1979, colour, mono,
28 min.), “Sodium Vapor” (1979, colour, stereo, 15.14 min.) and “The Passing”
(1991, b/w, mono, 54 min.)
Multimedia artist Nan Hoover - who was originally a painter before moving on to
performance, film, video and photography, later also to sculpture and from
there “back” to drawing – is represented in the exhibition with approx. 40
photographic works created between 1978 and 2007 and with the video diptych
“Doors”. In 2003 the two artists were featured in a very similar exhibition
organised at the Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany.
Guest curator of the exhibition is René Schmitt from Frankfurt, Germany; at the
MdM Mönchsberg the exhibition is curated by Margit Zuckriegl. The exhibition is
accompanied by a richly illustrated 40-page catalogue with contributions by Peter
Joch, René Schmitt and others. The catalogue is available at the museum shop for
the price of 10 Euro.
Image: Nan Hoover
Presse: Christine Forstner
T+43.662 84 22 20-601
F +43.662 84 22 20-701
christine.forstner@mdmsalzburg.at
Mediatour: Wed, 19 March 2008, 11 a.m.
Opening: Wed, 19 March 2008, 7 p.m.
Museum der Moderne
Moenchsberg 32 - Salzburg