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Peter Freeman, Inc. is pleased to present The Universe, Matt Mullican’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring a single new work comprised of 9,519 collaged and hand-numbered sheets, approximately 6,700 of which are installed in an immersive layout that fills the gallery.
The Universe (2023–2025) is Mullican’s latest “book,” a category of artwork he conceived and began using in the early 1970s in various formats, including drawing, collage, prints, photos, lightboxes, and rubbings. Mullican has stated that “everything is a sequence,” and “it is hard to say when it is not a book.” For The Universe, Mullican used two copies of the 1990 edition of the Random House Encyclopedia (originally published in 1977) as his starting point, cutting out every image or chapter title per page, collaging each onto individual sheets, and numbering the sheets according to their published order.
Mullican retained the encyclopedia’s two-sectioned structure—Colorpedia, which consists of illustrated…
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Peter Freeman, Inc. is pleased to present The Universe, Matt Mullican’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring a single new work comprised of 9,519 collaged and hand-numbered sheets, approximately 6,700 of which are installed in an immersive layout that fills the gallery.
The Universe (2023–2025) is Mullican’s latest “book,” a category of artwork he conceived and began using in the early 1970s in various formats, including drawing, collage, prints, photos, lightboxes, and rubbings. Mullican has stated that “everything is a sequence,” and “it is hard to say when it is not a book.” For The Universe, Mullican used two copies of the 1990 edition of the Random House Encyclopedia (originally published in 1977) as his starting point, cutting out every image or chapter title per page, collaging each onto individual sheets, and numbering the sheets according to their published order.
Mullican retained the encyclopedia’s two-sectioned structure—Colorpedia, which consists of illustrated…
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