ANTHONY MCCALL AT KUNSTMUSEUM ST. GALLEN
TWO DOUBLE WORKS
9 February 2013 – 21 July 2013
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ANTHONY MCCALL AT KUNSTMUSEUM ST.
GALLEN
TWO DOUBLE WORKS
9 February 2013 – 21 July 2013
Curated by Konrad Bitterli
Stepping into the darkened room,
through a veil of mist you can see how, on the wall, a spot is becoming an
ever-expanding crescent which, after thirty minutes, forms a full circle. At
the same time, the light of the film projector creates a cone in the space, a
kind of temporary sculpture: Line Describing a Cone (1973) is
a key work of modern art history and one of the exemplary works in the field of
light art: "It is the first film to exist in real, three-dimensional
space", stresses its creator, British artist Anthony McCall, who is a
pioneer of contemporary sculpture and was a leader in the Expended Cinema of
the 1970s. Born in 1946 close to London, Anthony McCall first ventured into the
sphere of experimental films, and by the end of the 1960s he had already
realised performances and ephemeral sculptures in space using elemental
materials such as fire or water which, due to their time-based structure,
lasted only as film documents. Early on, his films and installations could be
seen at prominent international exhibitions, such as documenta 6 (1977), before
he largely withdrew from the art world for over twenty years.
The 1990s saw a rediscovery of his
epoch-making creations. Most importantly, the 2003
exhibition X-Screen: The Expanded Screen: Actions and
Installations of the Sixties and Seventies at the
Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK) in Vienna made his decisive contribution to the
art of the 1970s clear for all to see. Since then, his Solid Light
Films, which he named himself, have been presented at numerous exhibitions
worldwide, including at the Museum für moderne Kunst in Frankfurt in 2005, the
Serpentine Gallery in London in 2007, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the
Centre Pompidou in Metz in 2009, and at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin in
2012.
The Two Double Works exhibition
at the Lokremise in St.Gallen, for which the now New-York-based artist created
two extensive works using light, is his first ever solo presentation in a Swiss
museum. The show will include double projections, in which two and
three-dimensional media combine meaningfully, as it were, with the fourth
dimension of time: Anthony McCall's installations are at once spatial
inventions, sculptural quests for form and drawing with light, and all this as
a time-dependent process, always complemented by the presence of the onlooker
and his or her own movement in the space and actual duration of perception.
In Two Double Works two linear light-drawings move towards
each other as "travelling waves" (McCall), ellipse-like, over the
same wall in varying constellations, uniting briefly to create a continuous
drawing. At the same time, the light projections create complex spatial forms
which materialise visually in the mist, yet permanently change. Every attempt
at a final graphic form is renounced in favour of a form that continuously
recreates itself over the course of time, with which the observer becomes part
of the artistic
creation as an actual performer,
through whose presence and movement in the space the drawing on the wall and
the form in the space are permanently changing.
Anthony McCall's exhibition Two
Double Works is not only extraordinarily complex and artistically
challenging thanks to its multi-layered references to film, sculpture and
performance, but his works also surprise with their lightness and sensual
appearance, which integrates the onlooker as part of the whole, essentially
involving him or her as an accomplice in the creative process.
You may reach Anthony Mccall's
exhibitions news to click below links from my blog archive.
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com/2013/06/anthony-mccall-lighting-installation.html
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2013/10/anthony-mccall-at-contemporary-art.html
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LEAVING ( WITH TWO – MINUTES SILENCE ) 2009
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LEAVING ( WITH TWO – MINUTES SILENCE )
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YOU AND I, HORIZONTAL III – 2007
ANTHONY MCCALL
Born St Paul’s Cray, England, in 1946. Lives and works in ManhaCan. McCall is known for his ‘solid-light’ installaGons, 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 exhibiGons as “Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art 1964-77,” Whitney Museum of American Art (2001-2); “The Expanded Screen: AcGons and InstallaGons of the SixGes and SevenGes,” Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (2003-4); “The Expanded Eye,” Kunsthaus Zurich (2006); “Beyond Cinema: the Art of ProjecGon,” 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); SerpenGne 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); Lugano Arte e Cultura (2015); Pioneer Works (2018); Hepworth Wakefield (2018); and Albright Knox Art Gallery (2019).
Current publicaGons include “Anthony McCall: 1970s Works on Paper" (Ann Wagner, Walther Konig, 2013); "Anthony McCall: Notebooks & ConversaGons" (Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone, Lund Humphries, 2015); and “Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works” (Luke Skrebowski, Antonio Somaini, SKIRA - Lugano Arte e Cultura, 2015).
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