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Article: Matt Mullican
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- April 1, 2006
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Matt Mullican
CHRISTINE BURGIN GALLERY
In 1925, reflecting in "An Autobiographical Study" on the hypnotic treatment that he had abandoned in his clinical practice years before, Sigmund Freud wrote that the method had nonetheless proved to be an "immense help," in select cases, "by widening the field of the patient's consciousness and putting within his reach knowledge which he did not possess in his waking life." The persona conjured in Matt Mullican's recent installation at Christine Burgin Gallery, Five Suitcases of Love, Truth, Work and Beauty, 2005-a figure whose emergence was precipitated by Mullican's performances while under hypnosis-also seems to be sorely in need of some knowledge, ...