Work
01/13
Matt Mullican, Subjects (2018)
Photo: Collection of the Schering Stiftung in the Kupferstichkabinett of the National Museums in Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions, BerlinSchering Stiftung Collection in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin © Courtesy of The Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin, Berlin
02/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, cover page
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
03/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, page 1
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
04/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, page 2
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
05/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, page 3
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
06/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, page 4
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
07/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, page 5
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
08/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, page 6
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
09/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, page 7
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
10/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, page 8
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
11/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, page 9
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
12/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, page 10
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
13/13
Matt Mullican, “SUBJECTS,” 2018, portfolio with 10 multicolor lithographs and pencil on paper, with a cover sheet and colophon page, in a folding box, copy: 7/16, each 37 x 31 cm (image size), 47 x 37 cm (sheet size)
Publisher: Keystone Editions fine art printmaking, Berlin, exterior view box
Photo: Collection of the Schering Foundation in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, courtesy of the artist and Keystone Editions
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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