Anthony McCall:
Meeting You Halfway
July 26 – November 30, 2025｜Fubon Art Museum, Taipei
We are proud to present Anthony McCall:
Solid Light of Gaze — Meeting You Halfway, the first major solo exhibition in Taiwan by the British-born, New York-based artist Anthony McCall.
Spanning five decades of his groundbreaking practice, the exhibition brings together his iconic early performance-based film Landscape for Fire (1972), four representative horizontal Solid Light installations, a maquette-scale vertical study, and a selection of preparatory drawings, photographs, and archival materials. Together, these works form a deeply immersive experience that blurs the boundaries between cinema, sculpture, architecture, and drawing.
McCall is internationally recognized as a pioneer of experimental film and performance art since the 1970s. He revolutionized the cinematic experience by liberating light and shadow from the traditional screen, transforming them into sculptural forms that viewers can physically enter and explore. Since 2003, he has harnessed custom software to meticulously choreograph beams of light in darkened, haze-filled rooms—creating his acclaimed Solid Light series, where light itself becomes a tangible, spatial force.
This exhibition opens with Landscape for Fire, a seminal early work that merges ritualistic performance with the natural landscape, offering a glimpse into McCall’s sustained inquiry into space, time, and perception. His preparatory drawings and documentation reveal the rigorous conceptual underpinnings of his practice, bridging ephemeral light forms with structural and poetic precision..
More than a study of visual form, McCall’s work redefines how we experience art. By extending perception into the spatial relationship between light, body, and architecture, he invites viewers to engage in a contemplative, physical encounter where silence and motion, darkness and illumination, converge.
Positioned between minimalism and poetic sensibility, McCall opens up a new rhythm of seeing—one that invites a slower, more profound connection to self and space. In the context of Fubon Art Museum’s contemporary program, Anthony McCall: Solid Light of Gaze — Meeting You Halfway offers not only a transformative visual experience but also a meditative dialogue with perception and existence.
Gladys Lin Projects is honored to have supported the realization of this exhibition in Taiwan. We invite viewers to step into this luminous architecture of silence, and meet Anthony McCall—halfway..
安東尼・麥考爾：
在光中遇見你
2025 年 7 月 26 日－
11 月 30 日｜台北富邦美術館
我們榮幸呈現《安東尼・麥考爾：凝視的實體光——在光中遇見你》，這是英國出生、現居紐約的藝術家安東尼・麥考爾在台灣的首場大型個展。展覽回顧其橫跨五十年的關鍵創作歷程，集結其代表性的早期行為式電影作品《火之地景》（Landscape for Fire，1972）、四件具代表性的水平式「實體光」裝置、一件模型尺度的垂直研究作品，以及多件創作草圖、攝影與檔案資料。這些作品共同構築出一種高度沉浸的觀看經驗，模糊了電影、雕塑、建築與繪畫之間的界線。
自 1970 年代以來，麥考爾即被視為實驗電影與行為藝術的重要先驅。他將光與影從傳統銀幕中解放，使之轉化為可被身體進入與探索的雕塑性形式，徹底革新了電影的觀看方式。自 2003 年起，他運用客製化軟體，在充滿霧氣的黑暗空間中精密編排光束的運動，發展出廣受推崇的「實體光」系列，使光本身成為一種可感、可佔據的空間力量。
展覽以《火之地景》作為開端，這件關鍵早期作品結合儀式性的行為與自然地景，呈現麥考爾對空間、時間與感知的長期探問。展出的創作草圖與紀錄資料，揭示其作品背後嚴謹而縝密的概念結構，將瞬逝的光之形態與結構性的精準與詩意緊密連結。
麥考爾的創作不僅是對視覺形式的研究，更重新定義了我們經驗藝術的方式。他將感知延伸至光、身體與建築之間的空間關係之中，邀請觀者進入一種沉靜而具身的觀看狀態，在寂靜與移動、黑暗與光明交會之際，展開深層的感知體驗。
遊走於極簡主義與詩性氣質之間，麥考爾開啟了一種全新的觀看節奏——一種引導人們以更緩慢、更深刻的方式，重新連結自我與所處空間的觀看方式。作為富邦美術館當代藝術計畫的重要展覽，《安東尼・麥考爾：凝視的實體光——在光中遇見你》不僅帶來轉化感知的視覺經驗，更是一場關於感知與存在的冥想式對話。
Gladys Lin Projects 榮幸參與並支持本展覽於台灣的實現。我們誠摯邀請觀眾走入這座由光與靜默構築的空間建築，在其中，與安東尼・麥考爾——在光中相遇。
