Matt Mullican

Untitled (people in the world unframed)

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Year 2017
Medium Pen on paper
Dimensions 29.7 x 21 cm
Nominated by Mathew Hale

About the work

Mullican uses a range of media, much of it drawing based, to examine how we perceive the world around us and to demonstrate that ‘reality’ is a construct of our imagination. Stick figures, which have featured in his work since the 1970s, demonstrate his interest in using simple means to explore profound themes. His World Unframed represents the realm of the unconscious, and of automatic action and is one of the cosmologies that he developed in the 1980s. His system of signs and symbols underlie his belief that every world is interconnected and that quotidian paradigms can be dismantled to reveal insights into the relationship between reality and perception. His other four cosmologies are: the Elements, which embraces the realm of nature and the material essence of things; the World Framed, portraying the consciously-driven thought processes and actions by which the world is perceived, analysed and systematised; the Sign which is the realm of symbolism and language; and the Subject, relating to the world of subjective experience and of ideas and feelings.

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