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Notating the Cosmology1973-2008

Matt Mullican - Notating the Cosmology
Artist's book based on Mullican's notebooks.
Notating the Cosmology, 1973-2008 reproduces and organises pages torn from Matt Mullican's own notebooks, accumulated over more than thirty years. The form imitates retrospective and biographic models, and integrates work notes used in Mullican's performances under hypnosis that evoke his imaginary studio. Filled with notations, observations, sketches and reflections on cosmology, Mullican's notebooks display modes of perception and formalism characteristic in his work: accumulating, collecting, adapting forms and thought patterns that are “already there”. Thus, pictograms and concepts are reworked, classified and adapted into new modalities.
Borrowing from many moments of discourse and different forms of language (mathematics, visual, literary, etc.), Matt Mullican elicits a singular cosmology that invites us to reconsider our ways of constructing the world. Articulated around a semi-fictional/ semi-real Ego, Mullican creates a kind of parallel world to our own in which he organizes disciplines according to his own rules: nature and its evolution, the world of objects, symbolic values, signs and concepts.
Through his concise line and the apparently clear schema, the (false) demonstrative evidence of the diagram, and through philosophical considerations, Mullican immerses us in an incomplete cartography in which one senses his encyclopedic mind and metaphysical direction. He touches upon essential events where Death walks hand in hand with the Destiny of the fictional Ego, where time and logic are turned in upon themselves.
Book available in deluxe edition, signed and numbered, including an original drawing.
Working in the fields of performance, installation, digital technology and sculpture, Matt Mullican (born 1951 in Santa Monica, lives an works in New York) is seeking to develop a cosmological model based on a personal vocabulary combining the formal and the symbolic. Hypnosis and cartography are his principal modes of operation. He explores functional sign systems of his own devising through activities under hypnosis, in a permanent oscillation between the real and its schematization, between fiction and its physical reality.
Edited by Valérie Cudel.
 
published in 2009
no text
16,5 x 24,5 cm (hardcover, cloth binding)
258 pages (color ill.)
 
38.00
 
ISBN : 978-2-9533912-0-6
EAN : 9782953391206
 
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