For the video lesson series “The Influential Muses” presented in the Gallery, Laura Mattioli, President of CIMA-Center for Italian Modern Art in New York, talks about “Emergence” by Bill Viola.

A work created on distant echoes between contemporary and fifteenth-century art by an undisputed master of modern-day video art, who takes his cue from the fresco “Christ in Pity” by Masolino da Panicale and combines Christian thought and oriental spirituality with original syncretism.