Anthony McCall is in the spotlight at London's Tate Modern with his first major exhibition at the gallery. The British artist is projecting beams of intense light through spaces filled with fine mist to create interactive sculptures that can be manipulated by visitors.
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00:00One thing these forms are is a kind of sculpture, and sculpture, unlike say a painting, is something
00:27that the spectator needs to walk around to understand, needs to walk into and look at
00:37in all kinds of different ways to grasp what it is.
00:42And so that's pleasurable, that process.
00:48It's an interesting moment when you turn the corner and you come in and see these works
00:54appearing as though these are sculptures in space.
00:59You know, he's creating these gorgeous, geometric, very minimal works out of nothing other than
01:11just projected light and some mist, and it's astonishingly unresolved.
01:17The artwork is mesmerising.
01:20You walk into these lines of light and you feel like they should be solid, but they're
01:24not, and it's slightly disconcerting when you put your hand through one of these and
01:28it splits a beam, and you think it might actually chop your fingers off, but it doesn't at all.
01:32It's a really beautiful, enchanting experience of being immersed within these light art pieces.
01:39There are all kinds of ways in which visitors of these pieces will make sense of them, and
01:46that's as it should be.
01:48It's their job to find meaning and to make the meaning of the work, and to make it signify for them.