Work

Matt Mullican

“Subjects” (2018)

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Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS”, 2018, portfolio containing 10 multicoloured lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and a colophon page, in a slipcase, Ex.: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size), Publisher: Keystone Editions, Berlin © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

02/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS”, cover sheet, 2018, lithograph on paper, 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Matt Mullican, “1 SUBJECT”, sheet 1 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin

03/13
Matt Mullican, “1 SUBJECT”, sheet 1 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Matt Mullican, “2 SIGN”, sheet 2 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin

04/13
Matt Mullican, “2 SIGN”, sheet 2 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Matt Mullican, “3 WORLD FRAMED”, sheet 3 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin

05/13
Matt Mullican, “3 WORLD FRAMED”, sheet 3 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Matt Mullican, “4 WORLD FRAMED”, sheet 4 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin

06/13
Matt Mullican, “4 WORLD FRAMED”, sheet 4 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Matt Mullican, “5 ELEMENTS”, sheet 5 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin

07/13
Matt Mullican, “5 ELEMENTS”, sheet 5 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Matt Mullican, “6 FIRST PERSON”, sheet 6 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin

08/13
Matt Mullican, “6 FIRST PERSON”, sheet 6 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Matt Mullican, “7 SECOND PERSON”, sheet 7 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin

09/13
Matt Mullican, “7 SECOND PERSON”, sheet 7 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Matt Mullican, “8 THRID PERSON”, sheet 8 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin

10/13
Matt Mullican, “8 THRID PERSON”, sheet 8 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Matt Mullican, “9 VISCERAL FEELING”, sheet 9 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin

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Matt Mullican, “9 VISCERAL FEELING”, sheet 9 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Matt Mullican, “10 NO FEELING”, sheet 10 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin

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Matt Mullican, “10 NO FEELING”, sheet 10 of 10 from the series “SUBJECTS”, 2018, lithograph and pencil on paper, 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size) © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

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Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS”, 2018, portfolio containing 10 multicoloured lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and a colophon page, in a slipcase, Ex.: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size), Publisher: Keystone Editions, Berlin © Courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, Berlin
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

With the series Subjects, the U.S. artist Matt Mullican presents a lithographic work for the first time and thus expands his oeuvre, which oscillates between different media, by a new facet.

The artist has been developing a complex system of signs since the 1980s. This is created through an examination of signs, pictograms and images taken from the everyday world, which the artist expands with his own pictorial inventions. Mullican himself describes this system of signs as a model of a cosmology that is supposed to bring order into the hullabaloo that we call reality. It is also an expression of his very personal relationship to the world.

Mullican works not only with symbols and images, however, but also with a code that assigns a symbolic value to each color: Green stands for material, blue for the everyday world, yellow for ideas, white and black for language, and red for the subjective.

In Subjects, the artist also returns for the first time to writing, which he had consistently dispensed with since 1982. However, in Subjects he adds the text by handwriting: the irregularities of the handwriting contrast interestingly with the precision of the prints.

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