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Surrender Surrender

Surrender

Bill Viola

Art Funded
2003
Dimensions
204.2 x 61 x 8.9 cm
Presented by
Anne and Anthony d'Offay through The Art Fund
Diptych, one screen mounted above the other.

Two protagonists, seen only through their images reflected in water, bend repeatedly down into the water, towards each other, becoming more and more tormented as they do so. The water acts as a kind of metaphor for an intense emotional baptism. From the group of works know collectively as 'The Passions'.

Provenance

Anne and Anthony d'Offay.

Video on plasma flat panel displays

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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

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Art we’ve helped buy at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

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The Message of the Forest
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Work No. 370 Balls
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We are Pro Choice
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Wave
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Vingt Poèmes de Góngora
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Untitled Mughal Drawing
 Acquired 1996
Untitled (Pair)
 Acquired 2000
Untitled (Figure with Raised Arm)
 Acquired 1990
Untitled #410
 Acquired 2004
Untitled #408
 Acquired 2004
Une Semaine de Bonte ou Les Sept Elements Capitaux
 Acquired 1994
Tramcar in Fog
 Acquired 1989
Three stage designs
 Acquired 1932
There Will Be No Miracles Here
 Acquired 2011
The Mysterious Garden
 Acquired 2011
The Joy of Life (La Joie de Vivre)
 Acquired 1995
The Helmet
 Acquired 1992
Tête (Head) & La Fin d'un Monstre (Death of a Monster) & Homme et Femme (Man and Woman)
 Acquired 1995
Surrender
 Acquired 2003
Still Life with Aspidistra
 Acquired 2007
Slicer
 Acquired 2005
Six Definitions
 Acquired 2001
Sailing Dinghy
 Acquired 2008
Radio & Various Devotions Being Sung & Fear Smeared from Here to Here
 Acquired 2005
Portrait of a Lady in Black
 Acquired 1989
Pinched IV; Pinched V; Pinched VI
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Photographs from the 'Self Deceit' series
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Painting II
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On Form and Fiction
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Oiseau
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No Title (Table and Four Chairs)
 Acquired 2008
New York, November 8, 2001 III
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Maternité (Maternity)
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Le Temps Menaçant (Threatening Weather)
 Acquired 1995
Le Chef-d'oeuvre Inconnu
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Le Chant des Morts
 Acquired 1994
La Volière (The Aviary)
 Acquired 1995
La Corde
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L'Appel de la Nuit (Call of the Night)
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Kleine Welten
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Katharina Ondulata
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Joy of the Worlds
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Je Travaille comme un Jardinier
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Jörg Schellman Collection of Joseph Beuys Multiples
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In the Patio: Margaret Morris Fergusson
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In Scotland
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Hut in der Hand, Hut auf dem Kopf (Hat in Hand, Hat on Head)
 Acquired 1997
Horse's Skull, Sphere and Moon
 Acquired 2012
Head of a Catalan Peasant
 Acquired 1999
Group of works
 Acquired 2003
Glass on Glass on Grass
 Acquired 2003
Four paintings
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Family Suite
 Acquired 2005
Existers
 Acquired 2008
El Entierro del Condo de Orgaz
 Acquired 1994
Edinburgh: Old Town
 Acquired 1993
Deux Ouvrières dans l'Atelier de Couture (Two Seamstresses in the Workroom)
 Acquired 1991
Dehors (Outside)
 Acquired 1995
Das Schlimme Jahr, 1937 (The Terrible Year, 1937)
 Acquired 1988
Crusade
 Acquired 2008
Construction Through a Plane
 Acquired 2001
Constellations
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Collection of Works on Paper
 Acquired 2001
Bust of Alfred Wolmark & Portrait of Alfred Wolmark with Hat and Pipe
 Acquired 2004
Between Kilburn and Willesden Green, Winter Evening
 Acquired 1994
Aspidistra and Bottle on Table
 Acquired 1989
Album of 15 drawings by Surrealist artists
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A Premonitional Work, The River Findhorn (Message for Timothy H. O’Sullivan), Morayshire, Scotland
 Acquired 2010
A Girl
 Acquired 2007
6 Times
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10 Drawings
 Acquired 2001
1) Red Room; 2) No Title (Scurbbrush panel); 3) No Title (Oil Can); 4) No Title (Large Red Brick Drawing)
 Acquired 2008
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 Acquired 2008
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In 1994, the Art Fund helped the Gallery to acquire Tracey Emin's Family Suite: 20 drawings dealing with the artist's archetypal themes of sex, her family, her abortions and Margate.

Joan Miró's Maternité is celebrated as one of the masterpieces of his early maturity. A symbolic homage to fertility and womanhood, the painting's wit comes from its highly distilled images. A female ideogram stands in for a woman, each breast supporting a wriggling child. A sperm-like creature at the centre of the painting reflects the male's sole role in the process.

Six life-size cast iron figures appear at various points along the Water of Leith, from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to the harbour where the river meets the sea. These form Anthony Gormley's 6 Times – the first publicly sited work by the artist in Scotland. Gormley said of the project: 'It is wonderful to have the chance to make a work that connects so many different parts of this great city. When you see one you will, perhaps, remember another. The idea is to connect to time, weather and place and play part in the making of a scene, a picture, a reality, incomplete without you: the observer.'

A major rehang in 2015 saw the creation of a memorial display celebrating the work of the Scottish sculptor, painter and printmaker William Turnbull, who had died three years earlier. Included are a set of paintings and bronze sculptures acquired by the gallery in 2014 with Art Fund support. It also features 23 works on paper – displayed here for the first time – which were presented by the artist’s family through the Art Fund.

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1 . Surrender

© Bill Viola

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