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Mungo Thomson: Monument
The Californian artist presents "Snowman," a bronze sculpture inspired by cardboard tubes, and "Time Life Volume 15," a stop-motion film built from thousands of book images, subverting the idea of a monument through everyday materials and collective memory.
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In the courtyard stands Snowman, a painted bronze tower inspired by the cardboard tubes that posters and parcels travel in, packaging the museum describes as "destined to circulate and then disappear". Mungo Thomson has made it permanent.
Inside is Time Life Volume 15: Monument to a Period of Time in Which I Lived, a 4K stop-motion film of 1 minute 54 seconds. It is built from thousands of images taken from books, here candles photographed in religious texts, art history and interior design publications, set to a soundtrack of vinyl crackle. Both works are monuments to the ordinary experience of a generation shaped by print and the shift from analog to digital, rather than to historical events.
Entry is free, Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 7pm, and with one film and one sculpture this is a short stop. If your last Vinted parcel arrived in a cardboard tube, this is that tube, cast in bronze in the Marais.
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A bronze snowman modelled on cardboard tubes, and a stop-motion film built from thousands of book images. Free, and the one snowman in Paris guaranteed not to melt.
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Snowman
A painted bronze tower in the courtyard, modelled on cardboard shipping and postal tubes.
Time Life Volume 15
A 1 minute 54 second stop-motion film of candles photographed from books on religion, art history and interior design, with a vinyl-crackle soundtrack.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Rainy Days
Skip if
You want a full exhibition: this is one courtyard sculpture and a two-minute film.
With kids
Free entry. The City of Paris listing gives the audience as all ages.
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Image credits
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- Mungo Thomson: Monument© Mungo Thomson. Courtesy l'artiste, galerie frank elbaz, and Karma.
- Chaïm Kaliski. « Jim d'Etterbeek »Courtesy of mahJ - Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
- Georges Kars, 1880-1945. Un Bohémien à ParisMusée municipal de Velvary © Ville de Velvary
- La Bataille des couleursCourtesy of Centre Pompidou
- Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries LafayettePhilouSunshine, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- mahJ - Musée d'art et d'histoire du JudaïsmeMusée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Centre PompidouAlf van Beem / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Musée Cognacq-JayCVB / Wikimedia Commons
- Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)Mbzt, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0