Matt Mullican
Matt Mullican, born 1951 in Santa Monica, California, lives and works in New York and Berlin, Germany. Mullican has developed a lexicon of stylized signs and images, a rich vocabulary which is simultaneously personal and generic. He has devised a variety of structures for the signs to organize our world and describe its systems and relationships. Underlying his works is an artistic concept encompassing, in a literal sense, a worldview. Every work, therefore, contains the complex logic of a universal form in which the meaning of the greater concept derives from the symbolic significance of the individual works that are based on language. Color is the organizing principle in Mullican's cosmology, specifically red = subjective, black = language/sign, yellow = world framed (the arts), blue = the world unframed (unconscious), green = elements.
Matt Mullican Editions
Untitled
1998
From Sequences
a, b: Two silkscreens, c: Offset lithograph, all printed on Fabriano rag paper. Each print 40 x 50 cm (15¾ x 19¾ in), set signed and numbered on print a. Edition of 60. Print a is the same image throughout the edition, b has 5 different color variations, and c shows 15 different images within the edition.
This edition is based on Matt Mullican's work he did for the Documenta X website. The triptych simulates the almost archaeological act of sifting through layers – a process enabled by hyperlink technology and especially fitting for Mullican, who was among the first artists to explore the creative potential of the computer.
Set EUR 1,200
Untitled (Wall Work)
1998
From Wall Works
Five signs painted on a wall. Dimensions and configuration variable. Limited to 15 installations, with a signed and numbered certificate.
Matt Mullican’s contribution to the edition series Wall Works features a constellation of five bold, symbolic icons rendered in vivid primary and secondary colors. The work stands as a visual distillation of Mullican’s long-standing exploration of systems of meaning, representation, and classification. Each emblem belongs to his personal semiotic universe – part of a color-coded cosmology in which red, black, yellow, blue, and green symbolize categories such as the subjective, the objective, the world framed by language, and the unknown.
EUR 12,000
