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Anthony McCall : Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture at Hamburger Bahnhof

Anthony McCall at Hamburger Bahnhof; photo: Chloé Richard

Article by Alison Hugill, photos by Chloé Richard and Olivier Toggwiler – in Berlin; Friday, Jun. 22, 2012.

British artist Anthony McCall began working with ‘solid light’ films in the 1970s. His simple projections, emphasizing the sculptural qualities of light beams, were at this time exclusively projected horizontally. The artist used a standard 16-mm cinema projector to transmit 2-dimensional drawings onto a wall. The dark gallery rooms, filled with…[read on…]