Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture

Yesterday after work, one of my colleagues and I spontaneously decided to go and see Anthony McCall's 'Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture' at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, a contemporary art museum housed in a former railway station. McCall became known in the early 1970s for his unique light installations, and the Hamburger Bahnhof is showing the largest exhibition of his work to date.

The historic central hall of the museum has been transformed into a black box, filled only with cones of light and a light haze, which together create intangible sculptures. The exhibition includes both horizontal and vertical projections, which cast animated lines onto either the walls or the floor.

You could also walk in, around and through the sculptures and let yourself be engulfed by the cones of light. We had a lot of fun with silhouettes.