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2014 - Sculpture (Sculpture)

Mungo Thomson

location: Los Angeles, California
year born: 1969
gender: male
nationality: American

Mungo Thomson is a Los Angeles-based conceptual artist whose challenging works reveal a fascination with time, space, music, and perceptual phenomena in general. It has been pointed out that Thomson’s work privileges backgrounds: material (the white walls), institutional (the gallery), and historical.


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