Bill Viola – Pontormo at Carmignano

Carmignano, a little village west of Florence near Leonardo’s birth place, is the setting of an exciting video installation by Bill Viola. The church of San Michele in the village is home to Pontormo’s celebrated ‘Visitation’ and Viola uses this image as a starting point for his presentation. ‘The Greeting’ is a series of video images projected onto a screen in a dark room; three women are filmed as they meet and converse in a mirror image of the famous painting.