Bill VIola (II)

I already discussed the recent exhibit of Bill Viola at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome (http://castorphans.blogspot.com/search/label/Bill%20Viola); I stressed the spiritual travel mounted in the exhibit; it should be added that it is fundamentally a travel in the netherworld, or in a cemetery; the video-paintings resemble the small pictures we can find on italian graves, pictures that are intendend to preserve the image of the dead, but that spread instead a sense of inescapable mourning. The images of Viola are at first splendidly aesthetical; but when they slowly begin to move, this motion conveys the sensation of a ghost dead long time ago.
On the other hand, death and kitsch are the two pillars of contemporary art from -at least - Warhol to Hirst. There are many resistant artists (Kounellis, Josef Beuys etc.), but they are not liked very much by the market.