Mungo Thomson at Frieze Projects
Frieze Los Angeles 2020
Paramount Pictures Studios Back Lot
5515 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038
February 14-16, 2020
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Saturday, February 15: 11am–7pm
Sunday, February 16: 11am–6pm
Making use of a list of mediums too lengthy to enumerate, Mungo Thomson (b. 1969, Woodland; lives in Los Angeles) aligns himself with the droll and heady legacy of California conceptualism.
Thomson borrows from design worlds (graphic and product) to contemplate human existence vs. geological time. He has isolated the font on the Times magazine masthead in an ongoing series of paintings on mirrors (Time through the ages) and slowed down the lilting tunes of new age musician William Ackerman (the long play record ’It Takes a Year’ actually takes 365 days to hear).
Snowman recasts the seemingly ubiquitous cardboard delivery box into a bronze monument for our age. Recasting also is an appropriate term for the transformation of these disposable (but environmentally damaging) cardboard boxes into the durable, mineralogical bronze. Thomson seizes the everyday, too easily cast off consumer objects of our day and produces anthropological relics for the future.
Frieze Projects 2020 is co-curated by Rita Gonzalez (Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art, LACMA) and Pilar Tompkins Rivas (Director, Vincent Price Art Museum).
