Mungo Thomson: Between Projects
Mungo Thomson: Between Projects January 25 – February 11, 2007 As part of the group exhibition Some Time Waiting , Kadist Art Foundation is pleased to present Between Projects , the first solo presentation of the work of Los Angeles-based artist Mungo Thomson in France. Thomson’s erse practice is marked by an acute awareness of the aspects and rituals of daily life, particularly those that could be considered peripheral, overlooked, outside the common perceptual frame or tangential to late capitalist purview. His projects take as their subject the silences, pauses, digressions and voids that form the « negative space » of our commonly-held cultural narrative. With an array of media and approaches, Thomson’s subjects have ranged from film and video work to sculpture and installation, from sound pieces and publications to drawings and textiles. His subject matter has included the Hubble Space Telescope, Roadrunner cartoons and the legendary Hollywood stunt swordsman Bob Anderson. A mixture of deadpan humour and spatial sensitivity, of both social and phenomenological presence, defines the look of Thomson’s work. Upon closer inspection, however, his projects seem to lament and critique the proliferating homogeneity of culture, which conditions, consciously or not, our relationship with the world. For his exhibition at Kadist Art Foundation, Thomson will present three signature works from 1999, 2001, and 2006. Mungo Thomson has exhibited his work internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include Negative Space Variations at Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy (through Feb 25, 2007), Art 37 Statements, John Connelly Presents, Basel, Switzerland (2006), and Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2004, 2002, 2000). Selected group exhibitions include Happiness, Gagosian Gallery, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2006), PERFORMA05: First Biennial Of Visual Art Performance, New York, NY (2006), 2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (2004), Treble, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (2004), (2003), and Rock My World, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (2002). His work is in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA, La Collecion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, and GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy, among others. Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 24, 7-9pm