Mungo Thomson at Aspen Art Museum

Mungo Thomson, Sculptures
at the Aspen Art Museum
December 9, 2022–April 2, 2023

Aspen Art Musem
637 East Hyman Avenue
Aspen, Colorado 81611

Mungo Thomson’s Sculptures is a meditation on the passage of time and ways of seeing through book images. The exhibition presents the artist’s stop-motion animation Sideways Thought (2020–22), laying out French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s (1840–1917) complete works as photographed and printed in art history monographs. The work is the fifth volume in Thomson’s Time Life (2014–22). This series culls imagery from encyclopedias, how-to guides, cookbooks, science books, and other printed material and arranges them at the high speed of a robotic book scanner. Sideways Thought presents image after image of Rodin’s sculptures in rapid tempo. These works are known for their physicality, exposing the human condition in all stages of passion and suffering.