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As a series, these works form their own archive, reflecting each other, and picturing the viewer within an infinity room of culture and politics and media and design.The 'Wall Calendar' series displays commercial calendar images as if held up to the sun, allowing the reverse side of the page to show through. Printed on both sides of fabric and stretched over a lightbox, recto and verso are collaged together with light--the calendar grid of a single month is superimposed onto a photograph of a 40-million-year-old mountain, and the everyday minutiae of living is put into scale with geological time.These works consider geochronology from a precarious contemporary vantage, contrasting evocations of elevated consciousness with contemplations of extinction. Thomson's 'Snowman' is a series of trompe-l'oeil stacks of Amazon boxes and other online retail shipping cartons cast in sturdy patinated bronze. Both a droll contribution to the field of outdoor sculpture and a mineralogical transformation of the temporary and ephemeral into the permanent and geological, in 2020 the Snowman also became public art for a depopulated world.Includes a conversation with Laura Owens.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49746900877585,"sku":"NGR9783037645758","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51087338340625,"sku":"NIN9783037645758","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/303764575X.jpg?v=1751430819"},{"product_id":"mungo-thomson-book-mungo-thomson-9783905770278","title":"Mungo Thomson","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50402986230033,"sku":"CIN390577027XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/390577027X.jpg?v=1750731159"},{"product_id":"mungo-thomson-time-life-book-mungo-thomson-9781949172898","title":"Mungo Thomson: Time Life","description":"Thomson’s epic stop-animation project opens a startling and profound conversation about history, technology and perception   This volume documents eight short stop-motion animations by Los Angeles–based artist Mungo Thomson (born 1969) that use reference encyclopedias, photobooks, how-to guides and production manuals as their raw material. The project imagines these books being scanned by a high-speed robotic book scanner of the type used by universities and tech companies to digitize libraries, and proposes such a device as a new kind of filmmaking apparatus. Thomson exploits the dualities of the digital and the analog, the video and the book, the automated and the handmade, binding them each together. The videos feature soundtracks by Andrea Centazzo and Pierre Favre, Laurie Spiegel, Sven-Åke Johansson, Lee Ranaldo, Ernst Karel, Pauline Oliveros, Adrian Garcia and John McEntire. The New York Times called Time Life a \"thrilling accomplishment, adding a new chapter to the long conversation about photographs, mechanical reproduction and ways of seeing.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51059558482193,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51059561070865,"sku":"NIN9781949172898","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51515001766161,"sku":"NGR9781949172898","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52126296211729,"sku":"NLS9781949172898","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1949172899.jpg?v=1751187711"},{"product_id":"mungo-thomson-mail-book-mungo-thomson-9781941753347","title":"Mungo Thomson: Mail","description":"An artist’s book compendium of the Hammer’s Museum’s entire incoming mail, designed in the style of a mail-order catalog  For Mail, Los Angeles–based artist Mungo Thomson (born 1969) asked the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to let its incoming mail accumulate unopened during the run of the exhibition. Over the course of the show a pile of correspondence and packages grew, forming a temporary archive.  This book functions both as an artwork and as an elaborate and exhaustive documentation of the work as realized by the artist. Every letter, package, notice, magazine, flyer, restaurant menu, exhibition postcard, vendor catalog and piece of junk mail is represented.  Featuring an essay by Hammer Museum curator Aram Moshayedi, Mail performs a kind of autopsy of the sculpture, displaying every facet and revealing the infrastructure of both the artwork and the museum.  The design of the book loosely mimics a popular mail-order catalog, and Thomson’s photography of the items in the mail pile at the Hammer was undertaken with this catalog design in mind.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51272256291089,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51272256717073,"sku":"GOR014213217","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141467468049,"sku":"NLS9781941753347","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1941753345.jpg?v=1750997115"},{"product_id":"mungo-thomson-michael-webster-crickets-book-mungo-thomson-9783037643341","title":"Mungo Thomson \u0026 Michael Webster: Crickets","description":"For Crickets, artist Mungo Thomson has collaborated with composer Michael Webster to transcribe field recordings of crickets from around the world into a musical score. The result is a dynamic composition for a 17-person classical ensemble: violin, flute, clarinet, and percussion.The score contains 25 chapters, or 'movements', such as 12. Reunion Island, the Cirque de Cilaos at 1,300 m altitude, February 1998, nightfall in a banana plantation.Crickets was performed in Los Angeles as part of The Pacific Standard Time Public Art and Performance Festival (2012), and in 2013 a concert took place on the High Line in New York.Mungo Thomson is an artist whose work frequently touches on silence, blank space, and cultural motifs around reception. Crickets sums up Thomson's interests in ambience and in audience succinctly: crickets are such a ubiquitous aural backdrop that they have come to stand in for silence, and in the realm of performance, crickets are what is heard when a performance bombs.The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph Keller.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51514973028625,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51514973683985,"sku":"NGR9783037643341","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52617209151761,"sku":"NLS9783037643341","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/303764334X.jpg?v=1751284292"},{"product_id":"mungo-thomson-time-people-money-crickets-book-mungo-thomson-9780985660215","title":"Mungo Thomson: Time People Money Crickets","description":"Mungo Thomson (born 1969) is a Los Angeles–based artist whose work explores mass culture and cosmology. 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