Matt Mullican

Mullican, Matt





Matt Mullican was born 1951 BirthSanta Monica, USA.
Lives and works in HomeNew York.

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Categories: Painting Drawing Installation art Whitney Biennial Sao Paulo Biennale Performance Art

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Matt Mullican, Ohne Titel / Cosmology, 1987.
A portfolio of ten silkscreen prints and 64 etchings based on twenty years of Matt Mullican’s notebooks.
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American artist Matt Mullican gives a performance while in a state of hypnosis. His work explores the way in which hypnosis alters behaviour and seems to expose what lies behind the façade of identity. The symbols and shapes that he paints during the performance are a visual counterpoint to this inner journey, and point to the strong relationship between the unconscious mind and creativity.
O MIT Project que será apresentado na 28ª Bienal não é uma reprodução da peça exibida pela primeira vez em Boston, em 1991. Qualquer coisa pode ser incorporada a ela. Alguns objetos que fazem parte da estrutura são os mesmos da primeira versão da obra, mas outros são do ano passado. Pode-se dizer que o MIT Project é um mapa, uma maneira de organizar informações. A estrutura tem 1 m de altura; então, pode-se vê-la por cima, além de se entrar nela. Nunca se sabe em que parte os objetos serão incorporados. Não se trata do objeto propriamente dito, mas de como interpretamos o objeto. É uma maneira de catalogar a obra que produzo…
While Mullican’s performances call up 1960s and 1970s predecessors such as Bruce Nauman or Joseph Beuys, the graphic meandering and biomorphic whorls in his drawings of the past decade hark back to Surrealist experiments with frottage and automatic writing. These abstract geometric forms are combined with more representational, repetitive imagery: grids of letters and numbers, transcriptions of song lyrics, and childlike pictures. Mullican has long been interested in the intersection of public sign systems with personal semiotics, and in the early 1970s began producing a series of charts illustrating a fictive cosmology…

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American artist Matt Mullican gives a performance while in a state of hypnosis. His work explores the way in which hypnosis alters behaviour and seems to expose what lies behind the façade of identity. The symbols and shapes that he paints during the performance are a visual counterpoint to this inner journey, and point to the strong relationship between the unconscious mind and creativity.
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