FIVE WORLD CHART
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MATT MULLICAN
artist: Matt Mullican
craft: Viùva Lamego in Sintra, Portugal
in collaboration with: Mai 36 Galerie Zürich
This edition by Matt Mullican is a suite of six multiple-colored traditionally processed and hand-painted terra-cotta tiles, produced by Viùva Lamego in Sintra, Portugal, housed in a wooden box.
6 tiles, each tile 14 x 14 cm
Edition of 32, each labelled and numbered with certificate
Mullican’s work on cosmological charts and cities revolves around a system of systematically turning cities into abstract patterns. The charts became grids, in which coloured squares, rectangles, and semi-circles from the charts could be arranged in any order. The ensuing world can hence revolve around one of the five worlds, either around elements, the arts, language or the subjective.
In this edition of six ceramic tiles, each tile depicts a piece of the grid from the charts. The six tiles can be arranged in any given way and thus allow for a wide array of combinations.
MATT MULLICAN
Matt Mullican studied at CalArts in Los Angeles and is considered a member of the “Pictures Generation”.
Since the 1970s, American artist Matt Mullican has been interested in models for explaining the world. His work oscillates between various antagonisms, reality and fiction, subject and object, the conscious and the unconscious.
He has had many institutional exhibitions and his work is found in numerous international public and private collections, notably the MoMA (New York), Tate Modern (London), Haus der Kunst (Munich), and the Centre Pompidou (Paris).
VIÙVA LAMEGO
The ceramic tiles for the Matt Mullican editions were produced by the historic tile factory "Viúva Lamego", in Sintra, Portugal. Each tile is painted individually by hand, making each piece unique. The tiles are made from local clay which is sourced from their own quarry located in the surrounding area of the factory. The production of the tiles follows a traditional process, where the clay is first mechanically extruded, then cut, glazed and fired, to be then hand-painted by the experienced ceramic painters at Viúva Lamego, to be then fired a second time.