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Anthony McCall – Solid Light exhibition at Tate Modern

Anthony McCall - Solid LightPhoto: tate.org.uk
Where? Tate Modern, Bankside When? 27th June 2024 to 27th April 2025 10 AM to 6 PM (Mon-Sun); Last entry 45 mins before closing Price? £14 · See tate.org Parking: Nearby car parks Buses: 45, 63, 100, 344, 381, RV1 Bus fares Trains: The closest station is Southwark Jubilee Other nearby stations: Blackfriars Train fares

Tate Modern will be exploring the immersive works of Anthony McCall, inviting you to step inside his innovative installations of light.

Room 1 - Solid Light

Blurring the boundaries between cinema, sculpture and drawing, Solid Light uses beams of light projected through a thin mist to create three-dimensional forms in space. As you move through these translucent sculptures your own movements and interactions will bring the artworks to life, causing them to slowly shift and change and create new shapes.

Also on display will be some drawings and photographs of the artist's own experiments and performances, showing how he managed to develop his installations.

Room 2 - Landscape For Fire (1973)

Room 2 features a screening of one of McCall's earliest films, Landscape For Fire, in which he's shown lighting some small fires at dusk.

Room 3 includes four more immersive artworks including his first attempt at 'solid light' - Describing A Cone (1973) - which used simple animation techniques to cut through the dust and cigarette smoke of a New York loft, enabling it to be seen in three dimensions. Thirty years later McCall returned to the series using a haze machine and digital projectors, allowing viewers to experience the light beams in a smoke-free environment.

His latest works expand the 'solid light' format even further, projecting beams in two different directions at once, and using the refraction of light to conjure up uncanny forms.

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