Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Past: Mungo Thomson at Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver

"...Thompson's replaces romantics with cleverness, inserting pop-culture into the permutations of conceptual art. It's all almost funny. e.g. John Cage's 4:44 rendered beautifully as symphonic chirping of crickets. [...] The list goes on and critics groan and the uninitiated feel some sort of awe at getting it, art, we get it, the easily explainable trick Mungo's greatest trick of all."