UBS AG
In front of the UBS building on the square by the Metalli shopping mall, stands a massive sculpture created by the American artist, Mat Mullican (born 1951). Next to it there are two smaller exhibits. The simple, coloured towers of cubes and spheres represent parts of Mullican's subjective cosmology, which finds expression in various media and objects, from computer to poster to flags - right down to the envelope.
Yet for him it is a question of life, for which he has signs for God, angels, birth and death, but also for the most ordinary actions, which keep appearing in his work. The towers must be "read" from the bottom to the top: green represents the material things in life: the blue globe stands for the daily routine: the yellow, framed universe for the area of ideas and thoughts: an abstract black sign represents language and at the top the red brain represents the authority of the mind.
At the same time, Mullican's figures are elements of a fictitious town, created by the artist with a high-powered computer: a mixture of reality and artistic utopia.
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Various pieces of arts in the UBS entrance hall.
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