“Faust erster Teil 13 Fragmente”
loosely based on the work of J.W. Goethe “Faust erster Teil”

Video concept and production: LUIGI VIOLA
Soundtrack: Alieno deBootes / Alessandro Pizzin
(including some excerpts from “il secondo orizzonte dell’universo”)


(c) Luigi Viola 2018
(c) soundtrack Nuova Explora 2017

(…) The central question of Faust is the one to which is not given and perhaps cannot be given a true answer. It stands eternally at the center of the human experience:
“Do you believe in God?” (…)

— from Luigi Viola’s introduction notes for “Faust erster Teil 13 Fragmente”

Luigi Viola
Feltre 1949. Multimedia artist and teacher in Brera Milano and Venice Fine Arts Academies. Pioneer in the 70s of the Italian video art.
Classical studies and Ph.D. in Literature at the University of Padua.
Co-founder of several art reviews: “Informazione Arti Visive” in Venice, “Creativa” in Genoa, “Artivisive” in Rome, and “Qnst”, also in Venice. 
He was a pioneer of videoart in Italy.
He started in the early 70s using visual writing, performance and video, winning wide international acclaim for his personal lyrical and narrative interpretation. In the mid-70s, he turned his attention back to painting, but photography has been in any case a constant way of working.
With a ductile approach to the different media, he directs his research on the themes of memory, travel and landscape as places of the discovery of the sacred.

RECENT WORKS
 
Ein Nichts, video color, sound 13’14’’ soundtrack by Alessandro Pizzin, loop 2007 - 2010
Prayer, video color, sound, 8’33’’ loop 2008 - 2010
God is One, video color, sound 7’42’’ loop 2010
Memories of Tel Aviv, video color, sound 14’53’’ loop 2011
Memorial, video color, sound 15’17’’ loop 2011
A Home Garden at Night with Storm, color 4’39’’ soundtrack by Amerigo Tronchin 2014
Der Himmel über dem Ghetto, color sound 22’ 42’’ soundtrack by Alessandro Pizzin, 2016