Step into a dark haze-filled room to interact with the power of projected light. Transforming a beam of light into a three-dimensional sculpture, Anthony McCall’s ‘You and I, Horizontal II’ (2006) is an Australian premiere.
The pioneering work of British-born artist Anthony McCall occupies a space between sculpture, cinema, performance and drawing. McCall was one of the first visual artists to experiment with spatial film and temporal sculpture, emerging in the mid 1970s with the ‘Solid Light’ film series - works that used a 16mm projector to project cones of light through smoke or haze filled rooms. His work attracted renewed attention in the 1990s, when spatial installations once again became a popular and critical tendency in contemporary art. He now uses digital projection and complex graphic software systems to capture the most basic sensory element of the moving image: the projection of light.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B2001833
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Interactive media
Sound/audio
Silent
Colour
Black and White
Object Types
Installation
Materials
computer, computer script, projector and haze machine