THE GUARDIAN
By Jonathon Jones
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| Martyrs by Bill Viola at St Paul's in London |
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Bill Viola has created a powerful modern altarpiece for St Paul's Cathedral that perfectly suits the restrained spirituality of this most English of churches. Coming into Christopher Wren's great building on a weekday morning when crowded buses surround this London icon, you notice how ascetic its atmosphere is. Greek mosaics and the perfect geometry of a dome that suggests the clockwork universe of Wren's contemporary Isaac Newton make St Paul's a place of cool, even philosophical, prayer. At least, they were until American visionary Viola unveiled his latest work, a permanent
video installation, there on Tuesday. [
link]
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| Earth … Martyrs by Bill Viola |
