Notating the Cosmology 1973-2008, 2009
Ed. Captures, Valence
Ed. 1000. unpag. 17 x 25 cm. Price: 38 €
50 numbered copies with a signed original drawing. Price: 650 €
In more than 100 pages the book compiles Mullican’s “world view”
in an annotated form, as it presents drawing as a means to elucidating ideas.
The artist’s fictive studio, the performances, all of Mullican’s imaginary universe
unfolds in its growing complexity through the book pages. An inventory of notes, charts, sketches, texts and signs; a flux of language that enables the artist to locate his own ideas on a much larger cultural map. The book collects the drawings presented in Mullican's show at ProjecteSD in May 2008.
That person's workbook, 2007
Ed. MERPaper Kunsthalle, Ghent and Ridinghouse, London
744 pp. 22 x 34,5 cm. Out of stock
This handsome, oversized volume is the result of Mullican's explorations under hypnosis, a state that he has pursued for more three decades. This book brings together more than 700 drawings, collages, photos, recipes and clippings. They were exhibited at the Museum Ludwig in 2005, assembled into a maze, divided into six rooms and a connecting corridor.The book contains an essay by Ulrich Wilmes and an interview between Matt Mullican and a practitioner of hypnosis, Vicente de Moura.
DC: Matt Mullican: Learning From That Person's Work, 2005
Ed. Verlag Walther König, Köln
32 pp. Price: 16 €
Matt Mullican`s artistic work reveals conditions of body and soul. Some of his recent work evolved from trance revealing another identity which he calls "that person". Books after Mullican's sow at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne. The installation consisted of more than 80 linen cloths with nine drawings each, created under hypnosis, symbolizing a new orientation in the labyrinthine situation. Mullican selected an excerpt from his large-format workbook for the 16 page color insert.
Try and beat this Mars, 2003
Ed. Onestar Press, Paris
Ed. 250. 160 pp. 14 x 22,5 cm. Numbered. Out of stock
I was interested in the depiction of a physical reality within the fictional framework of cartoons - in a sense, going into where Superman lives, and breaking down that reality. Diagnosing the air and the water that exists within this comic book reality which we, as a culture, participate in. The atmosphere as it exists in the cartoon is related to the atmosphere of dreams and the atmosphere of pictures. Both the cover and the content of the book are from a series of works produced in 1974 around the subject of "details from an imaginary universe."
World Framed, 1993
Ed. Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida
221 pp. 22 x 28 cm. Out of print/Out of stock/Agotado
An artist's book based on Mullican's self-contained worlds, with artist's notes, drawings, computer graphics, and comics.
Untitled, 1992
Ed. Imschoot-Uitgevers, Ghent
Ed. 600. 42 pp. 32 x 21,5 cm
60 numbered copies with an original drawing
Out of print/Out of stock/Agotado
Imagine a city of the future. Here are the blue prints. Orwellian line drawings on tracing paper; thirty-seven images form a tour through an urban environment.