Mungo Thomson
Biography
Mungo Thomson (born in 1969 in Davis, USA ; lives and works in Los Angeles)
The wide-ranging, multi-media work of Mungo Thomson (b. 1969, Woodland, CA) approaches mass culture and everyday perceptual experience through a lens of deep time and cosmic scale, implicating the spaces of production and exhibition along the way in ever-widening extrapolations.
He has convened an orchestral ensemble to perform a score transcribed from the chirping of crickets, persuaded museums to let their incoming mail pile up unopened in the galleries for the run of an exhibition, made a stop-motion film animation of his art dealer’s Rolodex, and replaced the coat-hangers in the Whitney Museum’s coat check with custom-made hangers modeled on orchestral triangles, transforming it into an enormous musical instrument.
Mungo Thomson (né en 1969 à Davis, États-Unis ; vit et travaille à Los Angeles).
L'artiste californien Mungo Thomson explora, dans ses dernières œuvres, la culture populaire et les objets du quotidien, tels que les couvertures du célèbre magazine Time ou des jeux de cartes. Dans sa série Compositions, les cartes sont mélangées puis envoyées dans les airs ; la composition qui se forme sur le sol est alors photographiée puis transformée en une image brodée numériquement sur du lin. Thomson a aussi commencé à travailler sur la série Rods and Cones, qui joue sur l'art optique en transformant en peintures des prospectus publicitaires sur le thème de la vue. Influencé par le mouvement Light and Space qui exploite la lumière du Sud de la Californie, il introduit la lumière dans ses œuvres en tant qu'élément permettant la vue (les cônes étant responsables de la couleur, et les bâtonnets de la lumière) mais aussi comme un artefact de l'art californien. Ainsi, à travers ses œuvres diverses regroupant des films, des sculptures, des photographies, de la musique et des livres, Mungo Thomson nous conduit à questionner ce que l'on prend en général pour acquis.
Works
Exhibitions
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La Promesse d'Avril
Sheila Hicks, Yasuko Hirano, Yasuhisa Kohyama, Kenjiro Okazaki, Kaz Oshiro, Tobias Pils and Mungo Thomson 3 - 27 Apr 2024at Mtk Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan 20-1 Okazaki Minamigoshocho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, 606-8334, Japan galerie frank elbaz is delighted to announce its upcoming exhibition, La Promesse d’Avril , to be...Read more -
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Sideways Thought 20 Oct - 17 Dec 2022 -
Mungo Thomson
Why Does the Worls Exist? 2 Apr - 28 May 2016“The chances that anyone has ever shuffled a pack of cards in the same way twice in the history of the world are infinitesimally small, statistically speaking. The number of...Read more -
Accrochage
Davide Balula, Sheila Hicks, Rainier Lericolais, Kaz Oshiro, Bernard Piffaretti, Mungo Thomson, Blair Thurman 15 Sep - 3 Oct 2015Pour son programme de rentrée, la galerie frank elbaz a proposé à sept de ses artistes de composer un accrochage. Chaque artiste proposant une nouvelle pièce parmi lesquelles certaines ont...Read more
News
Press
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Half-Analog, Half-Digital: Mungo Thomson Interviewed by Cassie Packard
BOMB MagazineCassie Packard, February 14, 2023 -
Mungo Thomson
Beaux Arts MagazineJudicaël Lavrador, February 5, 2023 -
Mungo Thomson’s “Sideways Thought”
art-agendaFrancesco Tenaglia, December 15, 2022 -
Mungo Thomson
ArtforumColby Chamberlain, June 4, 2022
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The New YorkerAndrea K. Scott, April 16, 2022 -
Mungo Thomson’s Elegies to an Analogue World
HyperallergicCassie Packard, April 2, 2022 -
Mungo Thomson
The New York TimesMartha Schwendener, March 2, 2022 -
"American Dust"
Esquire ItaliaFrancesco Tenaglia, September 10, 2019
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"Taking Time with Mungo Thomson"
Vice GarageHaley Mellin, June 18, 2019 -
"Why Does the World Exist?"
ArtReview Summer 2016Violaine Boutet de Monvel, July 2, 2016 -
"Mungo Thomson gives conceptualism a postmodern workout with Time, People, Money, Crickets"
The Georgia StraightRobin Laurence, July 14, 2015 -
"Art this week: Garry Winogrand, with Larry Clark and Mungo Thomson"
The Vancouver SunJune 8, 2015
Art Fairs
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Frieze Los Angeles
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Wallace Berman, Chloé Delarue, Sheila Hicks, Ari Marcopoulos, Kenjiro Okazaki, Kaz Oshiro, and Mungo Thomson. 20 - 23 Feb 2025For this edition of Frieze Los Angeles, we are pleased to present a thoughtfully curated selection of works by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Wallace Berman, Chloé Delarue,...Read more -
Art Basel Miami Beach
Sheila Hicks, Julije Knifer, Mikael Lo Presti, Machiko Ogawa, Kenjiro Okazaki, Mungo Thomson 6 - 8 Dec 2024 -
Art Basel
Chloé Delarue, Sheila Hicks, Julije Knifer, Shiryu Morita, Kenjiro Okazaki, Machiko Ogawa, Mungo Thomson 11 - 16 Jun 2024 -
Art Basel Hong Kong
Sheila Hicks, Julije Knifer, Kenjiro Okazaki, Bernard Piffaretti and Mungo Thomson 26 - 30 Mar 2024For its first participation at Art Basel Hong Kong 2024, galerie frank elbaz presents a selection of recent and important works by some of its...Read more
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Frieze Los Angeles
Wallace Berman, Sheila Hicks, Shiryu Morita, Kaz Oshiro, Bernard Piffaretti, Mungo Thomson 29 Feb - 3 Mar 2024 -
Art Basel Miami Beach
Sheila Hicks, Julije Knifer, Kenjiro Okazaki, Mungo Thomson 8 - 10 Dec 2023 -
Paris+ by Art Basel
Chloé Delarue, Ja’Tovia Gary, Sheila Hicks, Julije Knifer, Shiryu Morita, Yoan Mudry, Kenjiro Okazaki, Kaz Oshiro, Bernard Piffaretti and Mungo Thomson 19 - 22 Oct 2023 -
Armory Show
Wallace Berman, Léo Chesneau, Stephane Henry, Sheila Hicks, Julije Knifer, Ari Marcopoulos, Kaz Oshiro, Mungo Thomson, Blair Thurman 8 - 10 Sep 2023
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Tokyo Gendai
Sheila Hicks, Ari Marcopoulos, Kenjiro Okazaki, Kaz Oshiro & Mungo Thomson 7 - 9 Jul 2023 -
Art Basel
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Chloé Delarue, Sheila Hicks, Julije Knifer, Ari Marcopoulos, Kenjiro Okazaki, Bojan Sarcevic, Mungo Thomson 15 - 18 Jun 2023Tomo Savić-Gecan presents an ephemeral project that both extends the artist’s uncompromising, conceptual practice and acutely reflects our contemporary moment. Untitled is a participative performance...Read more