Anthony McCall
dal 1/2/2007 al 16/3/2007
Segnalato da
1/2/2007
Anthony McCall
Sean Kelly Gallery (old location), New York
You and I, Horizontal (III). His films and installations represent an extraordinarily corporeal and sensuous meditation on the medium of film and the politics of the audience's physical and conceptual relationship to it. All of these works took as their starting point the irreducible, necessary conditions of cinema: projected light, and real, three-dimensional space.
You and I, Horizontal (III)
McCall's exhibition includes one of his most complex and large-scale
installations to date. You and I, Horizontal (III) consists of a pair of
three-dimensional forms of `solid light', each thirty-five feet long,
projected side by side from wall to wall in the Main Gallery.
Anthony McCall is without question one of the seminal artists of American
avant-garde cinema. His films and installations from the seventies such as
Line Describing a Cone, Long Film for Four Projectors, and Four Projected
Movements, represent an extraordinarily corporeal and sensuous meditation
on the medium of film and the politics of the audience's physical and
conceptual relationship to it. All of these works took as their starting
point the irreducible, necessary conditions of cinema: projected light,
and real, three-dimensional space.
Philippe-Alain Michaud, the Film Curator at the Muse'e National d'Art
Moderne-Centre Georges-Pompidou, writing about Anthony McCall's work
stated: "Instead of a perspectival, illusionist space that brings cinema
close to painting, McCall's films use a projective space that makes it
into sculpture. The film is no longer a projected image that bores a
fictive depth into the surface of the wall, but constitutes an actual
field that merges with the event of projection itself. In this way Anthony
McCall's light-beams, outlined against mist, expanding upon the
specifically plastic properties of film, cross the frontiers of cinema
history to join the minimalist propositions of 1970s sculpture and rank
alongside the geometric structures of Robert Morris, Sol LeWitt or Carl
Andre, Dan Flavin's fields of color, or Fred Sandback's spans of colored
yarn."
Beginning with Doubling Back in 2003, McCall returned to the solid light
form. Since then, with works like Breath, Exchange, and Between You and I,
he has developed a group of important new installations which radically
expand on the earlier series.
Opening: Friday, February 2, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Sean Kelly Gallery
528 West 29th Street - Chelsea