Born in St Paul’s Cray, United Kingdom, 1946. Lives and works in New York
Anthony McCall is best known for his ‘solid light’ installations, a series that began in 1973 with his seminal Line Describing a Cone, in which a volumetric form composed of projected light slowly evolves in three-dimensional space.
Occupying a space between sculpture, film and drawing, the historical significance of his work has been recognised internationally in exhibitions such as On Line, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010-2011); The Geometry of 1920s/1970s Motion (MoMA-Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008), The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Projected Image (Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, 2008), Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection (Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2. 007-2.006); The Expanded Eye (Kunsthaus Zurich, 2006); The Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the 1960s and 1970s (Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, 2004-2003), Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2001-2002).
McCall’s work has also been exhibited at, among others: Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2010; Hangar Bicocca, Milan, 2009; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2009; Serpentine Gallery, London, 2008-2007, Rochechouart Museum, 2007; Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, 2006; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2004; Tate Britain, London, 2004.
McCall’s work is represented in numerous collections, including, among others: Tate, London; MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; SFMoMA-San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the Hirshhorn, Washington DC.
McCall was recently awarded a major sculpture commission for 2012 by Arts Council England and the Cultural Olympiad to realise his ‘Column’ in the North West of England: a cloud-spinning column rising vertically from the surface of the water in the sky. Other public commissions in San Francisco and Auckland, New Zealand, are also underway.
A two-part exhibition opens in London on 28 February 2010, at Sprüth Magers Gallery (Works on Paper) and Ambika P3 (Vertical Works).
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