The "Negative Space" project is a book made of photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and inverted. As "color negatives" of outer space (stars, solar systems, galaxies, nebulae, black holes, and exotic cosmic phenomena) it maps our universe in a book form.
Conceived by the artist in collaboration with graphic designer Conny Purtill, on the occasion of Thomson's exhibition at GAMeC, Bergamo, the publication is part of the
series of artist's projects edited by
Christoph Keller.
Mungo Thomson (born 1969 in Davis, California) is an artist based in Los Angeles. His wide-ranging, multi-media work approaches mass culture and everyday perceptual experience through a lens of deep time and cosmic scale, implicating the spaces of production and exhibition in ever-widening extrapolations. He has convened an orchestral ensemble to perform a score transcribed from the chirping of crickets, persuaded museums to let their incoming mail pile up unopened in the galleries for the run of an exhibition, and replaced the coat-hangers in the Whitney Museum's coat check with custom-made hangers modeled on orchestral triangles, transforming it into an enormous musical instrument.
Mungo Thomson has exhibited in Canada, China, the United States and Europe.
Edited by
Christoph Keller and Alessandro Rabottini.
Graphic design: Conny Purtill.
published in 2006
English edition
17,5 x 25,5 cm (softcover)
160 pages (100 colour ill.)
ISBN : 978-3-905770-27-8
EAN : 9783905770278
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