Matt Mullican's 'Centered' Exhibition at Massimo De Carlo in Milan

Matt Mullican, the American artist born in Santa Monica in 1951, returns to Milan's Massimo De Carlo gallery at Palazzo Belgioioso with 'Centered', a series of square canvases, watercolors, and inks on wood created using the ancient rubbing technique. This method, which transfers images through friction, has been a constant in Mullican's practice since the mid-1980s. The exhibition also features the banner 'Untitled (Center Chart Framed)' (2021) and two new productions, including '3D Overall Chart' (2021), which uses augmented reality to reference the artist's trance performances from the 1970s, evoking the similarity between parallel and illusory realities. Mullican's work revolves around abstract geometries and dualisms that connect body and mind, reality and perception. He has developed a complex sign system of letters and symbols, corresponding to an encyclopedic systematization and essential execution. Colors in his work correspond to levels of perception: black for language, blue for everyday life, green for physicality, red for subjectivity, and yellow for the arts. Active since the 1970s, Mullican has built a cosmology of diagrams, pictograms, and symbols across drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, video, computer graphics, and performance.