Anthony McCall
Line Describing a Cone, 1973
16 mm film
Duration: 30 minutes
Hall Collection
© the artist
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A large white circle slowly appears on a black background, projected onto an end wall. As the circle becomes fuller, the line of the long beam, made visible by mist...
A large white circle slowly appears on a black background, projected onto an end wall. As the circle becomes fuller, the line of the long beam, made visible by mist emanating from an unseen haze machine, turns into a large cone of light, creating a sculptural volume whose surface appears to be solid. Rather than watching the film, the audience must experience it immersively, moving around it, through it and inside it, looking at the beam from both the inside and the outside. The film is simultaneously a moving image and a three-dimensional sculptural form, whose internal and external surface exists at the border of what is visible and invisible, experienced by the body, yet intangible, locating the viewer's perception somewhere between logic and illusion.
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