Untitled (5 Lecture Boards), 2018
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Permanent Marker on 5 Whiteboards
189 x 157 x 60 cm / each
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Permanent Marker on 5 Whiteboards
189 x 157 x 60 cm / each
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Permanent Marker on 5 Whiteboards
189 x 157 x 60 cm / each
UniquePhoto: Roberto RuizUntitled (269 words from the birth to death list), 2018
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Set of 270 drawings, ink on paper
29,7 x 21 cm / each
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Set of 270 drawings, ink on paper
29,7 x 21 cm / each
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Set of 270 drawings, ink on paper
29,7 x 21 cm / each
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Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (signs from cosmology), 2018
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Gesso and china marker on cotton
260 x 240 cm
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Gesso and china marker on cotton
260 x 240 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (Notating the notebooks from the Archive of American Art), 2018
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Scans of three notebooks, presented on tablet
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Scans of three notebooks, presented on tablet
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Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (Board for Representing the work), 2018
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Set of 45 works on paper
2 x (42 x 29,7 cm), 18 x (29,7 x 21 cm), 25 x (14,8 x 21 cm)
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Set of 45 works on paper
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Set of 45 works on paper
2 x (42 x 29,7 cm), 18 x (29,7 x 21 cm), 25 x (14,8 x 21 cm)
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Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (Details from imaginary universe), 2018
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260 x 150 cm
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Archival inkjet print, gesso and china marker on cotton
260 x 150 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (Birth to death list), 2018
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Gesso, china marker and ink on cotton
260 x 150 cm
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Gesso, china marker and ink on cotton
260 x 150 cm
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Archival inkjet prints and gesso on cotton
260 x 240 cm
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Archival inkjet prints and gesso on cotton
260 x 240 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (Kunstmuseum Luzern), 1993/2018
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Set of 464 b/w photographs
10 x 15 cm cada / each
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Set of 464 b/w photographs
10 x 15 cm cada / each
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Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (Chart Nr.1), 2018
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Acryl, china marker and ink on cotton
260 x 150 cm
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Acryl, china marker and ink on cotton
260 x 150 cm
UniquePhoto: Roberto RuizUntitled (Chart Nr.2), 2018
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Acryl, china marker and ink on cotton
260 x 150 cm
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Acryl, china marker and ink on cotton
260 x 150 cm
UniquePhoto: Roberto RuizUntitled (Signs from the Magasin banners), 2018
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Gesso and china marker and ink on cotton
260 x 240 cm
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Gesso and china marker and ink on cotton
260 x 240 cm
UniquePhoto: Roberto RuizUntitled (All I see are light patterns), 2018
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Colored papers and gesso on cotton
260 x 240 cm
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Colored papers and gesso on cotton
260 x 240 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (Man broken up), 2018
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Acryl, gesso and china marker on cotton
260 x 150 cm
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Acryl, gesso and china marker on cotton
260 x 150 cm
UniquePhoto: Roberto RuizUntitled (Details from fictional realities), 2018
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Gesso, ink and china marker on cotton
260 x 150 cm
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Gesso, ink and china marker on cotton
260 x 150 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (Performance at Tate), 2018
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Oil stick rubbing and archival inkjet print on canvas (8 parts)
37 x 53 x 2 cm each
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Oil stick rubbing and archival inkjet print on canvas (8 parts)
37 x 53 x 2 cm each
UniquePhoto: Roberto RuizUntitled (Notebook), 2018
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Oil stick rubbing and archival inkjet print on canvas (8 parts)
37 x 53 x 2 cm each
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Oil stick rubbing and archival inkjet print on canvas (8 parts)
37 x 53 x 2 cm each
UniquePhoto: Roberto RuizUntitled (Lecture Performance at Franklin Furnace), 2018
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Oil stick rubbing and archival inkjet print on canvas (8 parts)
37 x 53 x 2 cm each
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Oil stick rubbing and archival inkjet print on canvas (8 parts)
37 x 53 x 2 cm each
UniquePhoto: Roberto RuizUntitled (Studio), 2018
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Oil stick rubbing and archival inkjet print on canvas (8 parts)
37 x 53 x 2 cm each
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Oil stick rubbing and archival inkjet print on canvas (8 parts)
37 x 53 x 2 cm each
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Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (Chart 82/83), 2018
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Oil stick rubbing on canvas (2 parts)
200 x 200 x 4,5 cm each
Overall dimension: 200 x 400 x 4,5 cmPhoto: Roberto RuizUntitled (Chart 82/83), 2018 (Detail)
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Oil stick rubbing on canvas (2 parts)
200 x 200 x 4,5 cm each
Overall dimension: 200 x 400 x 4,5 cmPhoto: Roberto RuizUntitled (Chart 82/83), 2018
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Oil stick rubbing on canvas (2 parts)
200 x 200 x 4,5 cm each
Overall dimension: 200 x 400 x 4,5 cmPhoto: Roberto RuizUntitled (Chart 82/83), 2018 (Detail)
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Oil stick rubbing on canvas (2 parts)
200 x 200 x 4,5 cm each
Overall dimension: 200 x 400 x 4,5 cmPhoto: Roberto Ruiz
Representing The Work
Matt Mullican’s work is the product of a detailed, near-obsessive introspection, devised as an elaborate attempt to duplicate externally the vast complex of inner representations which add up to his understanding of the world he lives in. Through the use of all conceivable media — drawings, readings, performances, rubbings, posters, signs, sculptures, animations, banners, etc., Matt Mullican has undertaken to re-create a multidimensional picture, a comprehensive project towards the goal of representing his world. And to do that he works to reconstruct it in every aspect, piece by piece, detail to detail. He constructs, assimilates, disintegrates, modifies, accumulates to deliver a complex, poignant and sometimes wondrous, but always fascinating oeuvre.
Text extracted from Matt Mullican’s World by Allan McCollum, 1979, originally published in Reallife Magazine New York, Winter 1980.