THE DAILY PIC (#1358): The artist Anthony McCall
made his biggest splash in the early 1970s, with a series of works where
he used a movie-projector to “draw” with light across a fog-filled
room. Sean Kelly gallery,
in New York, now represents him, and has up a show of his notebooks and
drawings. Today’s Pic, taken from that show, is titled “Solid Light”, and is a 1973 study for a landmark light projection called “Line Describing a Cone”.
What the study makes clear is that we don’t need scare quotes around
the idea that McCall draws with light; the relationship between the
forms he puts down on paper, and the ones he projects into fog, is as
close as can be. He is essentially an animator of space – the Norman
McLaren of minimalism. (©Anthony McCall, courtesy Sean Kelly, NY)The Daily Pic also appears at ArtnetNews.com. For a full survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.