Mungo, Auguste, Jasper

The excerpt from Mungo Thompson’s video Time Life, Vol. 5: Sideways Thought (2020-22) that Artforum posted last week is full of Rodin sculptures morphing into each other. It reminds me of the Minotaure-Centaure sculpture Rodin glommed together from parts laying around the studio, which became the secret source of the silhouetted figure in Jasper Johns’ Green Angel works, which was revealed around the same time.

a bronze colored plaster rodin sculpture fragment of a minotaur cradles a plaster fragment of a female human torso from a centaur sculpture in its outstretched arms. the silhouette of this odd hybrid object was used by jasper johns as an unidentified motif in a series of works beginning in the 1990s.

Also, a surprising array of folks have been making videos for Artforum, so I guess we’ve all just moved on, bummer about the genocide.