December 28,  - January 4, 2016 (The Year Ahead)

Mungo Thomson

BornNationalityBased In
1969AmericanLos Angeles
Biography

The wide-ranging, multi-media work of Mungo Thomson 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. ...

Selected Artworks
December 28,  - January 4, 2016 (The Year Ahead)
Mungo Thomson
December 28, - January 4, 2016 (The Year Ahead), 2015
188 x 142 x 6cm
Snowman
Mungo Thomson
Snowman, 2023
38.7 x 57.8 x 52.7cm
Biennals
Istanbul Biennial2011 - Istanbul
Istanbul Biennial2011 - Istanbul
Berlin Biennial2006 - Berlin
Berlin Biennial2006 - Berlin
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