Anthony McCall`s first institutional exhibition in New York opens at Pioneer Works
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Pioneer Works is presenting Anthony McCall’s Solid Light Works. This exhibition marks the artist’s first institutional exhibition in New York and first time that his vertical installations are being shown alongside their horizontal variants. Requiring over thirty feet of clearance from floor to ceiling, very few New York venues can accommodate these six-colossal works. The epic vertical and horizontal installations fill Pioneer Works’ monumental main hall, which has been completely blacked out and immersed in haze. A seminal figure of Expanded Cinema, McCall is well known for his “solid-light works.” It was a series he began in 1973 with the 16mm film Line Describing a Cone, in which a volumetric form composed of a beam of projected light slowly evolves in real, three-dimensional space. McCall regards these works as occupying a place somewhere between sculpture, cinema,