Matt Mullican: mapping the world

Abstract

The publication Mapping the World provides an overview of the artistic work of the American artist Matt Mullican (b. 1951) over the past fifty years. It is published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck, which was presented to the artist on the occasion of the awarding of the 2nd Possehl Prize for International Art. Matt Mullican is considered one of the pioneering representatives of the so-called Pictures Generation, which in the mid-1970s examined the influence of mass media images on everyday perception and thus declared them to be an integral part of artistic debates. For decades he has been working on an artistic systematization of his worldview, which he tries to capture in a wide variety of media and large-scale installations. His work is multi-layered, ranging from painting to various printmaking techniques to sculptural works and performances; his exhibitions always interact with the spatial circumstances. Exhibition: Kunsthalle st. Annen, Lübeck, Germany (30.10.2022 - 08.01.2023).

Contents

Possehl Prize International Art 2022 / Max Schön -- Welcome / Hans Wißkirchen -- Matt Mullican : 50 years of work : thinking in feelings / Oliver Zybok -- Matt Mullican : church : the image in space / Lorenzo Benedetti -- Matt Mullican : performance, under hypnosis, waking up -- Matt Mullican : five color garden, five world chart on brick "flower beds are extreme gardens". Matt Mullican's inscriptions in public space / Jana Bernhardt, Marianne Wagner -- Schwarze's afterword / Bernd Schwarze.