Anthony McCall: Works 1972-2020

Futura Seoul is presenting the first monographic exhibition in Asia of Anthony McCall (b. 1946), a pioneering artist who has explored light, time, space, and audience interaction throughout his career. This exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of McCall’s artistic trajectory spanning nearly half a century. Beginning with his early film and performance works such as Landscape for Fire(1972), created in the UK, the exhibition traces the evolution of his practice. It highlights the pivotal moment in 1973 with Line Describing a Cone, which marked the inception of his renowned Solid Light series. The survey continues through to his more recent installations, which have become increasingly sophisticated since the 2000s through the integration of digital technology. Together, these works map McCall’s sustained experimentation and conceptual inquiry into the possibilities of light, space, and time as artistic materials. This exhibition foregrounds his enduring question—can light be sculpted beyond the image?—and shows how that question has been persistently and rigorously pursued over decades. In doing so, it presents McCall’s work as a future-facing lens through which we may reimagine the spatial and sensory contours of our time.