Mungo thomson biography of george
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Mungo Thomson has had solo projects and performances at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy; Contemporary Art galleri, Vancouver, Canada; The Times Museum, Guangzhou, China; The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; and The High Line, New York, among others. His work was included in The 2nd CAFAM Biennale, Beijing, China; The Pacific Standard Time Public Art and Performance Festival, Los Angeles, USA; Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul, Turkey; Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; The 2008 Whitney Biennial; PERFORMA 05, and The 9th Biennial of the Moving Image, Geneva, Switzerland. Recent group exhibitions include those at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; and Tokyo storstads- Museum of Photography, Tokyo. Thomson’s work is held in the co
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MUNGO PARK AND THE NIGER
[Park] Thomson, Joseph. MUNGO PARK AND THE NIGER (London: George Philip and Son, 1890).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION WRITTEN ABOUT ONE OF THE GREATEST AFRICAN EXPLORERS BY ANOTHER ONE OF THE IMPORTANT AFRICAN EXPLORERS.
The African Association of London’s previous four expeditions to explore the Niger river had failed by the time they charged Park, a Scotsman, with the commission to explore the Gambia, Senegal, and Niger rivers in 1795. He covered well over 100 miles before he fell ill in 1797 and returned back to England. His unaffected style and natural sense of storytelling made his account one of the most of African exploration. Here Joseph Thomson, an accomplished African explorer and author from Scotland as well, provides us with a concise and well written history of Mungo Park's travels and adventures. Item #28444
First Edition. With frontispiece portrait from contemporary engraving, 13 illustrations on plates, seven additional illus
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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.