Five Suitcases of Love, Truth, Work and Beauty, 2006

January 26 to March 11
Lecture with demonstrations by the artist
March 11 at 8:30 pm

The Christine Burgin Gallery is pleased to announce the publication and the exhibition of a new work by Matt Mullican: Five 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 - this work is similarly one which Mullican describes as being made by "that person." In in his introduction to the Ludwig exhibition catalogue, Kasper Koenig 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 which Mullican has explored with his work, most notably with his work using hypnosis, since the mid 1970s.

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