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Window into the South African landscape, 1994
Mullins’ new show, Earthlings, is an evolution of the ideas tackled in his previous show, Ends and Escapes.
The title piece is a 15min oil paint and stop-frame animation, which features musical excerpts from Braam Du Toits’ Trip Stories, performed by the Sontonga String Quartet. Also on the exhibition are large oil paintings, including Mergers and Acquisitions, 260x 360cm, and eighty small canvases titled, Evidence of Life.
The small works site Mullins’ characters in blurred and undefined spaces, the content ranging from tender communications and small heroics to the starkness of the bleak hangman images. In Mullins’ large works, mark-making itself is the means by which the anxiety provoked by time and its subsequent shadow of loss are registered. These works are overlaid by quirk and humour, and the sub-text of games such as noughts and crosses becomes a digestible distillation of the recognition of our own limited time.
Click on the artwork to see the animation
 Earthlings, 2006 Still from the oil paint and stop-frame animation |
 Earthlings, 2006 Stills from the oil pain and stop-frame animation, |
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 Blossoms 2006 oil on canvas 260 x 360cm |
 Days, 2006 oil on canvas 120 x 340cm |
 Evidence of Life no 1, 2006 oil on canvas 30 x 30cm |
 Hang-man 8, 2006 oil on canvas 50 x 50cm |
 Intergallactic space war 2006 oil on canvas 240 x 170cm Spier Art Collection |
 Pressure, 2006 oil on canvas 170 x 200cm Hollard Insurance Collection |
 Mergers and Aqusitions and Blossoms, 2006 oil on canvas 280 x 360cm |
 Mergers and Aqusitions and Blossoms, 2006 oil on canvas 260 x 360cm |
 Space, 2007 oil on canvas 170 x 240cm Old Mutual Collection Artist's Statement
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