Exhibition

Matt Mullican: Five Walls

28 Apr 2021 – 5 Jun 2021

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Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 18:00
Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 18:00

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Capitain Petzel

Berlin, Germany

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  • U5 Straussberger Platz
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In Matt Mullican’s (b. 1951 in Santa Monica, CA) second solo exhibition at the gallery, Five Walls, the artist continues his investigation of how signifying processes function and the ways in which objects become charged with meaning.

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This decades-long exploration across various media such as painting, film, sculpture, photography as well as perfomance art, has led him to establish his own subjective 5-part classification system, which he calls his “theory of the five worlds”. In this cosmology, each colour corresponds to different levels of perception: green stands for material, blue for the everyday world, yellow for ideas, white and black for language and red for the subjective. This non-verbal language system of signs and pictograms is the common thread throughout his practice, picked up again by this exhibition in which the main space of the gallery is divided into five walls, relating to his world system, and carrying works and processes from the last 50 years, as well as new works made for the occasion, ranging from rubbings to tapestries, from ceramics to flags, posters and more. 

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