Untitled (TIME)

2010 - Film & Video (Film & Video)

Mungo Thomson

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In Thomson’s Untitled (TIME) , every front cover of TIME magazine is sequentially projected to scale at thirty frames per second. In a way, this work both examines the construction of history and the history of the influential magazine, which was founded in 1923. In addition to the play on “time”—one of Thomson’s ongoing obsessions—this piece highlights and continues the artist’s encyclopedic impulse, also seen in The White Album (2008), to record the history of the spaces he inhabits.

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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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• continuum.n.01
• periodical.n.01
• encyclopedic.s.01
• rapid.s.02
• record.n.01
• time.n.05
• appropriation art
• artists' books
• color photography
• contemporary conceptualism
• american