Matt Mullican

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MATT MULLICAN: CONVERSATIONS
Edited by Ulrich Wilmes. Conversations with Koen Brams, Dirk Pültau.
DUMONT BUCHVERLAG
ISBN: 9783832194161 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2012
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DC: MATT MULLICAN
Edited by Ulrich Wilmes. Foreword by Kasper Kànig.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883759470 | US $22.00
Pub Date: 1/1/2006
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MATT MULLICAN: MODEL ARCHITECTURE
Edited by Stella Rollig. Essay by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen. Conversation with Allan McCollum.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775717809 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 10/15/2006
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MATT MULLICAN: MORE DETAILS FROM AN IMAGINARY UNIVERSE
Essays by Allan McCollum, Kathy O'Dell, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Daniel Sherer, Michael Tarantino.
HOPEFULMONSTER
ISBN: 9788877571175 | US $43.00
Pub Date: 2/2/2001
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Matt Mullican

Matt Mullican: Conversations

Edited by Ulrich Wilmes. Conversations with Koen Brams, Dirk Pültau.
Published by DuMont Buchverlag

A bricoleur of cosmologies, cities and signs, a hypnosis subject, a collaborator and a collector of art and ethnographic objects, Matt Mullican has embodied and redefined the wilder horizons of conceptual art over the course of his 40-year career. From the start, Mullican has tackled only the big themes: the self, which with some courage he has dismantled under hypnosis, performing and making art as another Matt Mullican named “That Person”; and the universe, which he has imagined as a proliferating cosmology of signs, taking form under his “Five Worlds” concept or as a city. In this bilingual volume of conversations with Koen Brams and Dirk Pültau, Mullican also proves himself an articulate, generous talker. The conversations are themed in five chapters: “Collaboration,” “Cosmologies,” “Hypnosis,” “City” and “Collections.” Across these seemingly diverse topics, what emerges as the unifying principle throughout Mullican’s activities is his exemplariness as a true “cosmonaut of inner space.”

Matt Mullican: Model Architecture

Edited by Stella Rollig. Essay by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen. Conversation with Allan McCollum.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Matt Mullican is a multimedia artist in the broadest sense, ranging from these fragile models to bulky sculptures, from reliefs to drawings, collages, light boxes, computer animations, glass works, video and performances. The system of pictograms for which he first gained renown has served him well in addressing systematization and subjectivity, and in laying out the cosmology that preoccupies him most. His models, miniature houses, amphitheaters and abstracted structures in paper, glass, textiles, ceramics, wood and video help to place him and the idea of home in that same cosmology. They aren't plans for any larger realization; they are just ideas of spaces and environments, conveying relationships between concepts. Model Architecture offers an overview of their diverse forms and formats, and, in an interview between Allan McCollum and the artist, a sense of their crucial place in Mullican's oeuvre.

DC: Matt Mullican

Learning From That Person's Work

Edited by Ulrich Wilmes. Foreword by Kasper Kànig.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Matt Mullican has been performing and creating under hypnosis since the 1970s, accessing his titular alter-ego, "that person," in a trance state and collaborating with him in work that has been called "controlled schizophrenia." Ergo, the 80 bed-sheet panels documented here are credited to "that person," an interesting artist in his own right.

Matt Mullican: More Details From An Imaginary Universe

Essays by Allan McCollum, Kathy O'Dell, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Daniel Sherer, Michael Tarantino.
Published by Hopefulmonster

Throughout his three-decade career, artist Matt Mullican has always been more concerned with what we think we see than with what we see, taking as a foundational truth the notion that we understand the world primarily through our imagination. Working in various media, Mullican's unique artistic vision concerns itself with a universe of simple yet mysteriously resonant graphic symbols. Drawing on the language of warning labels and highway signs, Mullican has created an unorthodox body of work that occupies a unique place in the world of contemporary art--his piece Five Into One (1991) was one of the earliest artistic forays into the medium of virtual reality. Details From an Imaginary Universe collects Mullican's videos, installations, and drawings from 1972 up to the present day, providing a comprehensive overview of this artist who has tapped and explored our collective visions of a world that in its very familiarity is utterly alien to us.