Landscape for Fire

For Landscape for Fire Anthony McCall and members of the British artist collaborative Exit followed McCalls predetermined score to torch containers of flammable material across a field McCall describes it Over a threeyear period I did a number of these sculptural performances in landscape Fire was the medium The performances were based on a square grid defined by 36 small fires 6 x 6 The pieces which usually took place at dusk had a systematic slowly changing structure The work brought the grid a conceptual focus for many artists in the 1970s and after into a natural landscape merging it with the vagaries of outdoor space and fire