MACS – MUSÉE DES ARTS CONTEMPORAINS GRAND - HORNU | GRAND – HORNU, BELGIUM
Matt Mullican - Untitled (Performance at Tate) Photographer Roberto Ruiz Courtesy ProjecteSD
The MACS presents the first retrospective of the Californian artist Matt Mullican in Belgium (b.1951, lives and works in New York and Berlin).
Since the early 1970s, Mullican’s obsessional, encyclopedic work is using representation, sensation and subjectivity as driving forces to establish a truly personal cosmology. His representation of the universe is translated into “five worlds” represented by five colors: green for nature, blue for daily life, yellow for art, black for language and red for subjectivity.
The exhibition is arranged around several major series presenting the principal chapters of Mullican’s work: the emblematic series of Rubbings, the M.I.T. Project, as well as The Meaning of Things and Yellow Monster, two series based on images taken from the internet and performances under hypnosis.
The high point of the exhibition is the installation-mosaic, Representing the Work, a series of 64 bedsheets of iconographic plates detailing his entire oeuvre, from his early experiments in John Baldessari’s class to his gigantic installation at the HangarBicocca (Milan) in 2018.
