TAIPEI.- This exhibition marks UK-born, New York-based artist Anthony McCall’s first major solo presentation in Taiwan. It presents works from five decades of his ongoing creative exploration, encompassing his landmark early performance-based film Landscape for Fire (1972), four representative horizontal Solid Light installations, and one vertical maquette scale installation. The exhibition includes preparatory drawings, photographic works, and archival materials, collectively constructing an immersive experience that integrates cinema, sculpture, architecture, and drawing.

Anthony McCall is recognized as a key pioneer of experimental film and performance art in the 1970s. He broke away from traditional modes of cinematic viewing by releasing light and shadow from the confines of the screen, transforming them into “sculptural volumes” that viewers can physically walk through. Since 2003, McCall has used computer programs to precisely control the trajectories of light beams, developing his Solid Light series based on haze and darkness. In these works, light evolves from a medium of vision into a tangible, spatial force. The installations featured in this exhibition delineate flowing lines, curves, and volumes within the galleries of Fubon Art Museum, where the viewer’s body—moving within the light—becomes part of the work itself.

The exhibition opens with Landscape for Fire, a representative film work from the 1970s in which McCall combines “performance” with “landscape.” This piece demonstrates his ability to transform natural elements into ritual and structure, foreshadowing his later, in-depth investigations into space, time, and perception. His preparatory drawings and related documents reveal the conceptual and formal experimentation that preceded his sculptural light practice, underscoring the rigorous logic and poetic language behind his creative process.

McCall’s works are not only experiments in form and structure, but also reflections on the act of viewing itself. He extends vision into the relationship between the body and space, inviting us to experience the flow of time and the deeper summons of perception through the interplay of darkness and light, stillness and motion.

Positioned between minimalism and perception, McCall has developed a new rhythm of seeing— one that opens up a more intimate and profound spiritual experience. In the contemporary art context of Fubon Art Museum, located in the heart of the city, Anthony McCall: Meeting You Halfway is not only a groundbreaking visual encounter but also a dialogue with space, perception, and existence.