Mark Dion
Emanations Of the Earth
2017
€1800,00
Silkscreen print & hand-painted plastercasts in a cardboard box
30 × 40 × 6 cm
Unique, in a series of 16 variations – signed and numbered by the artist
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about this work
This edition consists of a cardboard box with the label Emanations Of the Earth, containing a silkscreen print (30 x 20 cm) and four hand-painted plaster casts wrapped in parafine-paper. There are 16 boxes, and each set is unique.
about Mark Dion
For over twenty years, the repertoire of American artist Mark Dion has included staged workbenches, dusty storage vaults, stuffed bears, and tarred birds. Ostensibly, his installations, interventions, performances, and photographs critique humankind’s often cruel treatment of nature. However, the artist also demonstrates that “nature” is a mere construct that is constantly being reshaped and reinterpreted.
Dion’s current project, Concerning Hunting, examines hunting as a traditional, but controversial, cultural practice. One of the fascinating things about hunting is its fundamental contradictoriness: the sensitivity of the hunter and his profound knowledge about what nature requires are also expressed through the act of killing animals. Dion’s artistic examinations do not focus on nature as such, but rather on the hunt as a way culture deals with it.
(Courtesy of Hatje Cantz)
Mark Dion has had numerous solo exhibitions at venues such as Palais des Beaux Arts, Paris; Marta Herford; Massachusetts MOCA; The Minneapolis Institute of Art; Carré d’Art, Nimes; South London Gallery, London; and Tate Gallery, London. Group exhibitions include, among others, Centre Pompidou, Metz; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; MoMA PS1, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the biennales from Beijing, Montevideo, Sydney, Venice and São Paulo; and dOCUMENTA13, Kassel.
Mark Dion is represented by the following galleries;
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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne / Berlin
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