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Lot 19
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Carter Mull

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Description

  • Carter Mull
  • Vista
  • c-print on gloss paper with pasted print
  • 113 by 171.5cm.; 44 1/2 by 67 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 2011, this work is from an edition of 5.

Catalogue Note

Carter Mull‘s work is full of vibrant colours and patterns. Beyond the surface lies a body of work that explores our language and relationship to pictures in an image-overloaded era. The term ‘analog Photoshop’ derives from working with the technology of Photoshop. In considering the ubiquity of this type of image making, Mull wishes to bring a different sense of time into image production. To do this, he attempts to express himself with a photographic language reaching beyond the boundaries of how photography is usually employed in either fine art or commercial production.

Mull trims and condenses. In his wall pieces he takes photographs of his studio, then prints, paints, and re-scans these, finally producing a large-format digitally modified version of the original image. Mull layers the images in his work in a dynamic manner obtaining a result, which is reminiscent of the 1980s and 90s visuals; often the viewer can recognise the portrait of an iconic celebrity and luminous, cursive letters perform a cluttered alphabet spelling. Surely, the question of obsolescence in relation to certain materials and technologies of technical reproduction is one that cannot be avoided. Yet it seems that the question is less about questioning the right of existence of traditional photography techniques, but more about investigating artistic expressions within a world of image reproduction, in which the tools of the trade have become so commonly accessible.