A must see
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The Serpentine Gallery, set in Kensington Gardens, is one of London's best-loved galleries for modern and contemporary art and it is now showing a selection of installations by Anthony McCall.
British artist Anthony McCall (born 1946) has a cross-disciplinary practice in which film, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance overlap. In darkened, haze-filled rooms, digital projections create an illusion of three-dimensional shapes, ellipses, waves and flat planes that gradually expand, contract or sweep through space. The works are simple projections that strikingly emphasize the sculptural qualities of a beam of light.
The installations owe their magnetism to the way the audience participates within and around the cones of light, the beams draw the viewer into their fold whereby the participants play modifies the transitory forms. It is incredible to see how much anticipation is built into entering a darkened space; academically one knows it is just light filling the void, however I have seen adults refuse to walk through the cones of light, approaching them so exceedingly cautiously as to what may lie beyond, first a hand, then the body and finally the head enters through into the 'light'.
British artist Anthony McCall (born 1946) has a cross-disciplinary practice in which film, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance overlap. In darkened, haze-filled rooms, digital projections create an illusion of three-dimensional shapes, ellipses, waves and flat planes that gradually expand, contract or sweep through space. The works are simple projections that strikingly emphasize the sculptural qualities of a beam of light.
The installations owe their magnetism to the way the audience participates within and around the cones of light, the beams draw the viewer into their fold whereby the participants play modifies the transitory forms. It is incredible to see how much anticipation is built into entering a darkened space; academically one knows it is just light filling the void, however I have seen adults refuse to walk through the cones of light, approaching them so exceedingly cautiously as to what may lie beyond, first a hand, then the body and finally the head enters through into the 'light'.
Most importantly for me, it re-emphasizes the thought of light as a tool, one that can inspire, energise and embrace.
Happy Lighting!
RW.
posted by Light IQ @ Friday, January 18, 2008 
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