Matt MULLICAN
Matt Mullican
Matt Mullican Gent; Imschoot, uitgevers; 1992 IB-series, 92p., 21,7 x 28,2 cm, sewn, paper: tracing paper and offset, printing: 37 computerdrawings, black, yelllow, varnish Luxury edition of 60 copies, signed and numbered, hardcover + original drawing on the same page as numbering. Ref.1, Ref.2 Ex. 13/60 drawing on the same page as numbering Condition : new.
Architecture, Conceptual Art, Avant-Garde, Imschoot Uitgevers
Info
This artist’s book represents 37 images taken from a tour through the data base of an untitled work structured on the form of an urban environment. The data base was produced at Optomystic Studios/Digital Editions, Los Angeles in 1989. The programmers were Jerry Weil and Karl Sims. The environment was modelled on the Thinking Machine’s, Connection Machine II. Ref.1
Imagine a city of the future. Here are the blue prints. Orwellian line drawings on tracing paper: thirty-sevenimages from a tour through an urban environment. Ref.3
Matt Cullican (1951 California) is an American contemporary artist. He is best known for combining performance, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and video as a means of exploring the subjective through the intersection of communal signage and personal semiotics. A part of the “Pictures Generation” alongside Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, and Richard Prince, Mullican decodes images and signs through diagrams, patterns, and written words. Born on September 18, 1951, in Santa Monica, CA, he received his BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1974. Mullican’s works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., among others. Mullican lives and works in New York. Ref.4
Imschoot Uitgevers In 1987 publishing house Imschoot (Ghent- Belgium) started an exceptional series of artists’ books made by international artists (Giovanni Anselmo, Sol LeWitt, John Baldessari, Lawrence Weiner, Hanne Darboven, Robert Barry, Christian Boltanski, Dan Graham, a.o.). Ref.5
In addition to the regular softcover edition (500 to 1000 copies), a deluxe hardcover edition was also issued in a very limited edition, numbered and signed by the artists.
The publishing house ceased its activities in 2006.
References
- Ref.1: Imschoot, uitgevers Catalogue 1993-1994, Artists’ books
- Ref.2: IB-series - Edited by Bartomeu Mari, the IB-series presents project books related to architecture within contemporary art, its interaction with media and contemporary culture.
- Ref.3: Imschoot, uitgevers [2002] Catalogue
- Ref.4: borgerhoff-lamberigts.be
- Ref.5: Johan Pas (Een essay door -), Het kunstenaarsboek in België: de voorzet tot een geschiedenis., Kunstenpunt
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