Regione Toscana - tra art rete regionale arte contemporanea / Fondazione Teseco per l'arte / Pisa

Over the last thirty years, Mullican’s vocabulary of signs and colors has evolved into an intricate framework through which our experience of reality can be dissected. In an enormous range of media, Mullican shows us the amorphous territories lying just below our daily operations. A distinctive group of works has emerged from the hypnosis performances, which expose a more primary world view and more real self capable of existing outside the authority of the physical world. Although these are visibly different from the majority of Mullican’s works, at the core they are approaching the same set of concerns. This exhibition presents works from both areas of investigation, revealing new depths within the cosmology and new territories to which it applies.

Matt Mullican (Santa Monica, CA, 1951), received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1974. His first exhibitions were at Artist Space in 1976, and at Mary Boone Gallery in 1980. Over the last several decades, his work has been shown extensively in galleries and museums in the U.S. and internationally, and is included in the permanent collections of major museums including The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, The Ludwig Museum, and The Pompidou Center. He has also completed a number of public and private commissions in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan.
BASE / Progetti per l'arte is a non-profit cultural association established in the spring of 1998 by a group of artists in Florence. The exhibition program was inaugurated in september 1998 with works by Sol Lewitt, followed by shows of Marco Bagnoli, Alfredo Pirri, Cesare Pietroiusti, Niele Toroni, Jan Vercruysse, Heimo Zobernig, the concert by Michael Galasso, Luca Pancrazzi, Marco Fusinato e John Nixon, Ingo Springenschmid, Paolo Masi & Pier Luigi Tazzi, Muntadas, Robert Barry, Luca Vitone, Liliana Moro, Claude Closky, Remo Salvadori, Pietro Sanguineti, Liam Gillick, Massimo Bartolini, Mario Airò, Eva Marisaldi, Rainer Ganahl, François Morellet, Bernhard Rüdiger, Nedko Solakov e Slava Nakovska, Giuliano Scabia, Kinkaleri, Steve Piccolo & Gak Sato, Rirkrit Tiravanija. The primary idea of Base is to provide a space which is open to the most significant contemporary italian and international art practices, and to present the works of artists in a dialectic of sign and language that encourages an ongoing and open dialogue of ideas concerning contemporary culture. Base was established and supported by founding member artists, but aims to involve a wider circle of art-related individuals, including scholars, critics, collectors and friends, by way of participation and sustaining support for the association’s activities.