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Copyright the artist | | | Mullican, Matt (1951 - ) USA
Signs, 1980
Gouache on cardboard; 240 x 244 cm 80's
UID 102-400
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Biography
American artist whose career began in the 70s, a period in which sensitisation in terms of perception, the body and the environment were dominant in the artistic milieu. He studied at the California Institute of Arts and, in 1973, he had his first one-man show in Massachusetts. From its beginning, his career has been marked by experiments with signs and symbols transmitted by the mass media. Using the analysis of these symbols as a starting point, the artist's work has spread into spatial dimensions, initially with projects intended for public spaces and, later, in a more concrete manner with a project conceived over a number of years, the City Project, which deals with virtual urban spaces through the design of open installations and videos. These are schematic forms, with simple motifs and clearly comprehensible projects containing symbolic content. In 1982 and 1997, Mullican took part in Documenta 7 and 10, in Kassel. In 1997, he also he took part in an exhibition at the Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. In the year 2000, his work will be presented at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art and the Serralves Foundation in Oporto. He currently lives and works in New York.
Exhibitions
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 28-03-2003 ~ 28-09-2003
Grande Escala - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 09-10-2004 ~ 18-03-2005
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Uma Escolha numa Colecção Particular Galeria Valentim de Carvalho, Portugal 08-07-1993 ~ 28-07-1993
Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo Galeria Diário de Noticias, Portugal 15-03-2006 ~ 05-05-2006
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Christie's, Contemporary Art, 1993 Published by Christie's
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Diário de Notícias ISBN 9729335923
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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