Anthony McCall
As an expat avant garde filmmaker living in New York in the 1970s, Anthony McCall's movie-making experiments culminated in a series of 'solid light' films that pared down the cinematic process to just light and duration. When McCall projected simple animated sequences of lines and ellipses, either horizontally or vertically, the effect of dust particles caught in the pyramidal light beam transformed the two-dimensional lines into three-dimensional, shifting, gossamer planes and curves. After a two-decade hiatus from making art between 1978-1998 McCall's return to his 'solid light' series has resulted in a renewed international interest in his work, including a two-venue London exhibition featuring an installation of four vertical pieces at Ambika P3 and related drawings at Sprüth Magers.