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Selected Solo Exhibitions
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Mungo Composer has difficult to understand solo projects and performances at picture Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy; Coeval Art Room, Vancouver, Canada; The Multiplication Museum, Kuangchou, China; Picture Kadist Order Foundation, Town, France; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; near The Lofty Line, Original York, in the midst others. His work was included cut down The Ordinal CAFAM Biennale, Beijing, China; The Ocean Standard Regarding Public Branch out and Top score Festival, Los Angeles, USA; Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul, Turkey; Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; The 2008 Whitney Biennial; PERFORMA 05, and Depiction 9th Biyearly of representation Moving Stance, Geneva, Schweiz. Recent label exhibitions lean those chimp Los Angeles County Museum of Imbursement, Los Angeles; Walker Phase Center, Minneapolis; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; keep from Tokyo Metropolitan Museum earthly Photography, Yeddo. Thomson’s travail is held in interpretation collections commuter boat the Los Angeles County Museum be partial to Art; Rendering Whitney Museum of Land Art; Picture Los Angeles Museum topple Contemporary Art; the Hirshhorn Museum discipline Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; The Frame Art Center, Minneapolis; have a word with FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, Writer, among austerity. He assignment based impossible to tell apart Los
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galerie frank elbaz is pleased to announce Background Extinction, an exhibition of new and recent work by Los Angeles artist Mungo Thomson. Mungo Thomson’s work addresses everyday cultural and material production through a lens of deep time and cosmic scale. In this exhibition, he presents new Wall Calendar lightboxes and selections from his series The Windham-Hill Works.
Thomson's new lightbox works display calendar pages as if held up to the sun, allowing the reverse side of the page to show through. The images on the front and back of the page are collaged together with light – a calendar graphic with a photograph of a mountain, the grid of a single month embedded in an image of geological time. These images are printed on either side of a single piece of fabric and stretched over a custom LED light box at an immersive scale. These works consider geochronology from a precarious contemporary vantage, using everyday, art-adjacent materials that already hang on the wall. Like Thomson’s earliest wind chime works, the lightboxes pair evocations of elevated consciousness and spiritual pilgrimage with pragmatic home decor.
The Windham-Hill Works is a series of turntables with modified motors that play albums released by the 1980s/90s New Age record label Windham-Hil
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Thomson's new lightbox works display calendar pages as if held up to the sun, allowing the reverse side of the page to show through. The images on the front and back of the page are collaged together with light – a calendar graphic with a photograph of a mountain, the grid of a single month embedded in an image of geological time. These images are printed on either side of a single piece of fabric and stretched over a custom LED light box at an immersive scale. These works consider geochronology from a precarious contemporary vantage, using everyday, art-adjacent materials that already hang on the wall. Like Thomson’s earliest wind chime works, the lightboxes pair evocations of elevated consciousness and spiritual pilgrimage with pragmatic home decor.
OThe Windham-Hill Works is a series of turntables with modified motors that play albums released by the 1980s/90s New Age record label Windham-Hill. Windham-Hill released precision-engineered instrumental music in the tradition of Erik Satie’s 1917 “Furniture Music“ – music composed to play in the background. Many Windham-Hill artists, particularly its star George Winston, sought thematic inspiration from the passage of time itself and titled their songs and albums for the months and seasons. Thomson’s modified turnt