Matt Mullican is one of the most celebrated American artist in the world. Born in Santa Monica, California, in 1951, he is the son of two artists, the Venezuelan Luchita Hurtado and the American Lee Mullican.
After his studies at the California Institute of the Arts, he showed up in the Pictures Generation (from the title of a '74 exhibition at the Met in New York) distinguished by a research on perception, knowledge and reality conducted since the seventies also with the experimentation of states of trance and hypnosis.
Mullican is on show in Milan with the most extensive exhibition in Italy and his major retrospective ever.
Another view of the exhibition
The HangarBicocca space in Milan with the setting up of the Mullican exhibition
His work is based on a different levels of perception that he calls the “five worlds,” corresponding to five colors.
Green: material elements
Blue: for everyday life
Yellow: where objects become valuable
Red for subjectivity and ideas.
Black and white for language and symbols
A view of the Milan exhibition