MUTATIS MUTANDIS Exhibitions

[...] His art deals largely with the central themes of human consciousness and experience - birth, death, love, emotion and a kind of humanist spirituality. Throughout his career he has drawn meaning and inspiration from his deep interest in mystical traditions, especially Zen Buddhism, Christian mysticism and Islamic Sufism, often evident in the transcendental quality of some of his works. Equally, the subject matter and manner of western medieval and renaissance devotional art have informed his aesthetic. Viola's work can also be linked with Zen Buddhism, Christian mysticism, and Islamic Sufism. An ongoing theme that he constantly explores is dualism, the idea that you can't understand what you're looking at unless you know its opposite. For example, a lot of his work has themes such as life and death, light and dark, stressed and calm, loud and quiet, etc. [...]



[...] Exhibitions and Artbooks: Current artbooks by th artist: Ralph Ueltzhoeffer (Amazon). Current exhibitions by the artist Ralph Ueltzhoeffer at MoMA Projects Series (Museum of Modern Art, New York). More exhibitions and projects: MoMA Projects Series.