Matt Mullican

The publication Mapping the World provides an overview of the artistic work of the American artist Matt Mullican over the past fifty years. 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.