A projector and a smoke machine create an amazing virtual space in an exhibition

Totally dark spaces and projection technology in combination with a smoke machine make up the unique exhibition of artist Anthony McCall, in which the visitor is introduced to a surprising virtual space of sculptures.

"Five minutes of pure sculpture does not leave indifferent" is the title of the traveling exhibition of sculptures by british artist Anthony McCall, which has traveled with enormous success through the uniqueness of Berlin itself, Switzerland, London and France, and which is now exhibited at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York with the name "Face to face" (face-to-face), as a structural description of the work and to define what happens when the visitor is, literally, inside it.

The surprising originality of this exhibition is that visitors can stroll among the works of this artist; a set formed by seven sculptures sculpted with light that move very slowly in a totally dark space. Visitors are led into a silent and dark room in which, at first, only the sweet smell of a smoke machine is perceived. In the center of the room, two projection screens hang from the ceiling with the aim of converting into thin chains of white light what is reflected on the screens located at opposite angles of the space, as if broken pieces of what look like parabolic arcs that are thrown, slowly, move and form new configurations.

As McCall himself explains, "the slowness of these works makes them different: you can spend a lot of time in them; they are changing and you can see the way in which they are transformed. They never get ahead of the person, but they move much slower". Even though, these pieces are not really the 'beginning' of this almost virtual space until you pass in front of the projector, as that is when visitors enter fully into the volumetric spaces that slowly create the thin projected white lines..

Thanks to the blankets of synthetic mist filtering through the dark gallery, white light becomes material; in a three-dimensional element of space. The curved parables create around the visitor towering walls or choppy blocks of light that catch him slowly, very slowly, and again the intangible light pieces, Digital, transform back into transparent waves of light to create a subtle interactive and experimental experience.

Despite the definitions made by the experts, its author prefers not to define himself before his work and assures that "I have created these works for the public, for you to enjoy. The public has interesting things to say about them; he doesn't need me to tell him what his meaning is.".

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