GAK [Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst]
Teerhof 21
D-28199 Bremen
Germany
Tel. +49(0)421-50 08 97
29. August – 15. November 2009
City as a Map (of Ideas)
Matt Mullican
with Janneke de Vries
American artist Matt Mullican (born 1951, lives in Berlin and New York) explores our desire to understand the world we inhabit.
Mullican's use of other idiosyncratic systems of classification provide the foundation and raw material for his art, which draws on a variety of models used to give order to our world (including encyclopaedias, tabularized lists, maps and pictographs).
Created between 2003-2008, Mullican's City as a Map (of Ideas) is comprised of 70 drawings, plans, collages, photographs and objects. Setting its sights on Hamburg as an exemplary city, City as a Map (of Ideas) explores new ways of representing urban space.
[text edited from a GAK press release. Graphic from GAK website. Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]
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