Anthony McCall
dal 8/5/2011 al 17/6/2011
Segnalato da
8/5/2011
Anthony McCall
Luciana Brito Galeria, Vila Olimpia
Conceived as a retrospective, this exhibition of the artist's earlier and more recent works. Widely known for his film-based installations that emphasize the sculptural quality of light in dark environments, Anthony McCall gained public recognition in the early 1970s, conceiving and producing large-scale performances based on the carefully planned lighting of small fires in rural areas.
21 works in multimedia
Luciana Brito Galeria presents the first solo exhibition in Brazil of works by
Anthony McCall. Conceived as a retrospective, this exhibition of the artist's
earlier and more recent works is accompanied by a bilingual (Portuguese/English)
catalogue featuring more than one hundred images and excerpts from several essays
and interviews with Anthony McCall from the last decade—all unpublished in
Portuguese—as well as an essay by exhibition curator Jacopo Crivelli Visconti.
The groundbreaking film Line Describing a Cone (1973), originally shot in 16mm and
very recently recreated digitally by McCall (Line Describing a Cone 2.0, 2010) will
be shown in both its versions, alongside other celebrated works such as Landscape
for Fire (16 mm film, 1972), Five Minute Drawing (1974/2007), and one of the
artist's most recent solid-light films titled Meeting You Halfway (II) (2010). The
exhibition will also include a large series of schemes and scores for performances,
drawings and prints.
Widely known for his film-based installations that emphasize the sculptural quality
of light in dark environments, Anthony McCall gained public recognition in the early
1970s, conceiving and producing large-scale performances based on the carefully
planned lighting of small fires in rural areas, often involving a large number of
participants over long periods of time (the Fire Cycle series). In 1973, after
moving from London to New York, Anthony McCall began the series of "solid-light
films", which rank among the most radical and original approaches to film-making in
the way they blur the boundaries between different media, as for example cinema,
sculpture, installation, relational art, etc. In 2003, following a period of about
two decades in which he refrained from producing art, the artist began a new series
of solid-light films, taking advantage of digital technology to create extremely
complex patterns that were previously unconceivable. At present, Anthony McCall is
work
ing on a series of public commissions (in the UK, New Zealand and USA) to be
dedicated by 2012.
Anthony McCall took part in countless solo and group exhibitions in major museums
and cultural institutions in Europe and the USA, including the Museum of Modern Art
(New York, USA), Tate Modern (London, UK), Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém
(Lisbon, Portugal), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Venice
Biennale (Venice, Italy), Whitney Biennial (New York, USA), Documenta (Kassel,
Germany), among many others. His works integrate major collections worldwide, such
as the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, Maryland), Centre Georges Pompidou
(Paris, France), Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Tate (London, England), among
others. Anthony McCall received the Special Exhibition 2006 Award by the
International Association of Art Critics, in Germany.
Opening: May 9, 2011, from 8 to 11pm
Luciana Brito Galeria
Rua Gomes de Carvalho, 842 Vila Olímpia, Brazil
Tue to Sat: 10am to 7pm
admission free