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Art News:
Matt
Mullican
“Beyond the
Planetarium”
Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor, New York,
NY
Tuesday, January 25,
2011
7:00 p.m., free
admission
Matt Mullican discusses the collisions of real and virtual space in
his work with digital and interactive media in the past twenty
years.
"I went from being surrounded by things—dealing with how we name
them and how we experience our environment through naming—to the opposite
end of the spectrum: starting with nothing, then calling the objects into
being."
—Matt Mullican, "Planetarium"
For Triple Canopy's tenth issue, And Yet It Moves, Matt
Mullican collaborated with computer programmer Patrick Smith to create "Planetarium," a navigable scale
model of the solar system. Mullican first experimented with digital environments
in 1991, when he made Five into One, a virtual city constructed in
accordance with his personal visual vocabulary and cosmological order. Exploring
that city, Mullican was transfixed by his ability to leave the earth's surface
and travel into nothingness. "I would fly upward," he says, "farther and farther
into the sky, beyond the stratosphere, into pure, white, infinite space. I would
go on forever, so far away from this city I had created that I couldn't find my
way back. I became curious about where, exactly, I was when I was out there, in
the middle of nowhere." This experience of unbounded space became a leitmotif in
later works. At Artists Space Mullican will present and discuss his many
explorations of virtual space—and the strange space between the virtual
and the real—and examine their relationship to his iconographic
sculptures, prints, and installations, as well as his performances under
hypnosis.
Matt Mullican was born in 1951, in Santa Monica, California, and currently lives
in Berlin. His work has been exhibited extensively in the US and
internationally. Recently, his work was included in "The Pictures Generation,
1974–1984" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009) and the 2008 Whitney
Biennial; it has also been exhibited at the Drawing Center, New York (2008);
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2005); Ludwig Museum, Cologne (2005);
and Museu Serralves, Porto (2001). Mullican's work is currently the subject of a
solo exhibition at the STUK Kunstencentrum in Leuven, Belgium, which will be
traveling to de Appel, Amsterdam, and Haus der Kunst,
Munich.
Benefit edition for Triple
Canopy:
Matt
Mullican
From Me (in Space), 2010
Archival pigment print
Diptych, each panel 17 x 22
inches
Edition of 30, signed and numbered by the artist
Published by Christine Burgin and Triple
Canopy
View detail images
»
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