Mungo Thomson

Snowman, 202338.7 x 57.8 x 52.7cmSign in to view price

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Material

painted bronze

Description

Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork depicts a stack of cardboard boxes, each marked with shipping labels and address information. The overall composition utilizes a minimalist and utilitarian aesthetic, focusing on the simple geometric forms and neutral tones of the packaging materials. The subject matter represents the ubiquitous yet often overlooked presence of shipping and logistics in contemporary society. The artwork's style and technique employ found objects, highlighting the artist's commentary on the mundane elements of modern life and their potential for artistic expression. The context of this piece likely explores themes of consumerism, globalization, and the role of everyday objects in the contemporary art discourse. ...

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

Artist

Mungo Thomson

B.1969, American

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. ...

Mungo Thomson: Artworks

Mungo Thomson

December 28, - January 4, 2016 (The Year Ahead), 2015

188 x 142 x 6cm

Mungo Thomson

Snowman, 2023

38.7 x 57.8 x 52.7cm

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