Artist
Mungo Thomson(American, born 1969)American, born 1969
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Volume 5. Sideways Thought
Date2020–2022
MediumSingle-channel video with sound
Dimensions8 minutes, 9 seconds
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund and the Henry Nias Foundation
Object number2023.239
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
Exposé
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Department
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In Volume 5. Sideways Thought, Mungo Thompson sourced 4,000 images from more than 50 books about Rodin sculptures to create a stop-motion animation in which individual sculptures seem to rotate in three dimensions. Accompanied by a rhythmic, minimal soundtrack, the quickly paced sequence emphasizes the multiplicity of Rodin’s output. Rodin’s insistence on the tactility of the medium and the importance of the sculptor’s touch cannot hold up to the dizzying array of sculptures on the screen in which single figures and motifs appear in multiple media and at different scales numerous times over.
ProvenanceThe artist; [Karma Gallery, Los Angeles]; purchased by MFAH, 2024.
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