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Carter Mull
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
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.