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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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My Name as Written by Bruce Nauman
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My Name as Written by Bruce Nauman

Mungo Thomson

 2014
Untitled (TIME)
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Untitled (TIME)

Mungo Thomson

 2010

In Thomson’s Untitled (TIME) , every front cover of TIME magazine is sequentially projected to scale at thirty frames per second...

The White Album
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The White Album

Mungo Thomson

 2008

The White Album (2008) presents a compilation of one hundred issues of Artforum magazine released between 1970 and 1979...

Wall Window or Bar Sign (Insanity is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over and Expecting Different Results)
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Wall Window or Bar Sign (Insanity is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over and Expecting Different Results)

Mungo Thomson

 2014

Starting with Bruce Nauman’s iconic artwork, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign) , Mungo Thomson’s neon sign is one of a series that replaces Nauman’s quixotic mini-manifesto with aphorisms from ‘recovery’ culture, especially those made popular by alcoholics anonymous...