Anthony McCall. ‘Solid Light, Performance and Public Works’
31 May — 30 October 2016
— The first Spanish survey of Anthony McCall
- Artists
- Anthony McCall
- Curators
- Gloria Moure
- Venue
- Fundació Gaspar
- Price
- 5 €
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- fundaciogaspar.com/en/visit
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Fundació Gaspar presents 'Solid Light, Performance and Public Works' the first Spanish survey of the work of British-born, New York-based artist Anthony McCall (born 1946). The exhibition displays important films alongside 'Solid Light' installation works spanning the artist’s career, including the premiere of 'Coming About' (2016), created especially for the occasion.
Anthony McCall has a cross-disciplinary practice in which film, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance overlap. He is best known for his ground-breaking Solid Light installations, which explore the sculptural qualities of the light emitted by film projectors, bridging the boundaries between the material and immaterial, and returning to the essential qualities of film: light and time. These installations invite the viewer to participate in a truly immersive spectacle and create both a direct sensory experience and an investigation into spectatorship, space and beauty.
Works on display include the seven-minute film Landscape for Fire (1972), the room-sized installation Circulation Figures (1972), and the vertical work Between You and I (2006), which uses a traditional narrative cinema device for scene transitions called ‘the wipe’ in conjunction with conical, three-dimensional projected light forms.
Encompassing the full range of expressive media used by McCall, the exhibition highlights the interactivity of the works as well as the artist’s use of space as a visual and plastic element rather than a neutral container. The exhibition will be accompanied by a consultation room devoted to McCall’s works on paper, drawings, schematic diagrams, photographs and projects for open-air spaces.
‘Solid Light, Performance and Public Works’ by Anthony McCall ©Carlos Collado
‘Solid Light, Performance and Public Works’ by Anthony McCall ©Carlos Collado
Anthony McCall
- Artist, Speaker
1946, St Paul's Cray, England
McCall is known for his ‘solid-light’ installations, a series that he began in 1973 with “Line Describing a Cone”, in which a volumetric form composed of projected light slowly evolves in three-dimensional space. Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing, his work’s historical importance has been recognized in such exhibitions as “Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art (1964-77)”, Whitney Museum of American Art (2001-2); “The Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the Sixties and Seventies”, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (2003-4); “The Expanded Eye”, Kunsthaus Zurich (2006); “Beyond Cinema: the Art of Projection”, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2006-7); “The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Projected Image”, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC (2008); and “On Line”, Museum of Modern Art (2010-11). McCall’s work has also been exhibited at, amongst others: Centre Pompidou, Paris (2004); Tate Britain, London (2004); SFMOMA (2007); Serpentine Gallery, London (2007-8); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2009); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2009); Serralves, Porto (2011); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2012); Kunstmuseum St Gallen – Lokremise (2013); Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam (2014) and Lugano Arte e Cultura (2015). Current publications include “Anthony McCall: 1970s Works on Paper” (Ann Wagner, Walther Konig, 2013); “Anthony McCall: Notebooks & Conversations” (Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone, Lund Humphries, 2015); and “Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works” (Luke Skrebowski and Antonio Somaini, SKIRA – Lugano Arte e Cultura, 2015). McCall’s work is represented by Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
Last update May 10th, 2016
Gloria Moure
Gloria Moure is an Editor and Independent Curator. She has curated exhbitions on some of the most acclaimed contemporary artists. Besides the retrospective dedicated to Marcel Duchamp that she curated at the Miró Foundation in 1984, among her projects are worth mentioning those that she developed when leading the Foundation Espai Poblenou in Barcelona (1989-1995) and the Galician centre for Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela (1994-1998). Among the exhbition that she curated are Gordon Matta-Clark (MNCARS, Madrid, 2006), Marcel Broodthaers (MAMBO, Bologna, 2012), On the Road (Santiago de Compostela, 2014), Michael Snow (La Virreina, Barcelona, 2015. ACCA award for the best exhibition of the year). She has written extensively and published numerous artists monographies, such as those of Marcel Duchamp,Sigmar Polke, Gordon Matta Clark, Marcel Broodthaers, among others.
Last update April 29th, 2016.
