Untitled (Computer Generated Details and Landscapes, Water), 1989 Matt Mullican Nothing Should Exist Over the last thirty years, Mullican's vocabulary of signs and colors has evolved into an intricate framework through which our experience of reality can be dissected. Through an enormous range of media, Mullican shows us the amorphous territories lying just below our daily operations. Each material becomes a context for examination of pure subjectivity, pure materiality, and everything in between. A distinct group of works has emerged from the hypnosis performances, a line of investigation Mullican has been following since the 1970's. A personality began to appear during the trance state that behaved differently than Mullican would have. Over the last twenty-five years, the performances have become less structured, allowing the modus operandi of "that person" to become the focus. This character is responsible for a set of works, including drawings, objects, photographs and video, which expose a more primary world view and a more real self capable of existing outside the authority of the physical world. Although these are visibly different from the majority of Mullican's works, they are approaching the same set of concerns. This exhibition presents works created by "that person," never before seen in New York. Alongside these will be new works exploring other corners of Mullican's cosmology, including a melted telephone, cast zinc archaeologies and a set of "default atmospheres" from landscape-building software. Mullican, once again, shows us how we map our imagination onto the world we inhabit. This group of works reveals new depths within the cosmology, and new territories to which it applies. Exhibition: 16 September - 30 October 2004 Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 11 am - 6 pm, or by appointment Tracy Williams Gallery 313 bis West 4 Street USA-New York, NY 1004 Telephone +1 212 229 27 57 Fax +1 212 229 25 71 www.tracywilliamsltd.com |
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