MATT MULLICAN / Heaven

Matt Mullican
Heaven  2021
Edition of 500
Christine Burgin Publishing and Marc Selwyn Fine Art

Details: Published by the artist in connection with the exhibition "Matt Mullican: Things Change in Heaven," Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, 2021. An accordion-fold book reproducing the 32-part work, Untitled (Things Change in Heaven), 2020. Text from an interview with the artist, Summer 2020. 

Condition: New 

Description: THE SIGN FOR HEAVEN IS THE TARGET. A TARGET WHICH IS THE MIND. WHAT THE MIND DOES BY ITSELF, THAT IS HEAVEN.

In addition to publishing and exhibiting the Matt Mullican and Allan McCollum collaboration Your Fate in 2004, in 2006 Christine Burgin published Matt Mullican's project Three Suitcases of Love, Truth, Work and Beauty. A continuation of Mullican's project for the Ludwig Museum in March 2005, Learning from the Person's Work, Three Suitcases is similarly one that Mullican describes as being made by 'that person'. In his introduction to the Ludwig exhibition catalogue, Kasper König writes: [Mullican's] "main interest is not so much to draw a fictitious character but rather to localise its origin in the artist's consciousness." Where is Mullican, the artist, in the creation of his work? Where should one locate the border between fiction and reality, between the subjective and the objective? These are the questions that Mullican has explored with his work, most notably with his works using hypnosis, since the mid 1970s.