Mungo Thomson
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 Woodland, États-Unis ; vit et travaille à Los Angeles)
L'œuvre protéiforme et pluridisciplinaire de Mungo Thomson (né en 1969 à Woodland, Californie) aborde la culture de masse et l'expérience perceptive quotidienne à travers le prisme du temps profond et de l'échelle cosmique, impliquant au passage les espaces de production et d'exposition dans des extrapolations toujours plus vastes.
Il a notamment réuni un ensemble orchestral pour interpréter une partition transcrite à partir du chant des criquets, convaincu des musées de laisser leur courrier s'accumuler sans être ouvert dans les salles d'exposition pendant toute la durée d'une exposition, réalisé un film d'animation en stop-motion à partir du Rolodex de son galeriste, et remplacé les cintres du vestiaire du Whitney Museum par des cintres sur mesure inspirés des triangles orchestraux, transformant ainsi l'espace en un immense instrument de musique.
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La Promesse d'Avril
3 - 27 Apr 2024Sheila Hicks, Yasuko Hirano, Yasuhisa Kohyama, Kenjiro Okazaki, Kaz Oshiro, Tobias Pils and Mungo Thomson at Mtk Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan 20-1 Okazaki Minamigoshocho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, 606-8334, Japan galerie...Read more -
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Sideways Thought 20 Oct - 17 Dec 2022 -
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Why Does the World 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
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The 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship April 15, 2025Mungo Thomson has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of film and video. The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim...Read more -
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Collection in Focus: Mungo Thomson, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Jun 20–Nov 17, 2024 Read more
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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 -
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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 -
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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