Mark Dion

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Mark Dion (* 1961 in New Bedford , Massachusetts , USA ) is an American draftsman , object and installation artist .

Life

Dion comes from a working-class family and did not visit a museum until he was 18. In his hometown he experienced the decline of the fishing industry and the social and ecological problems associated with it. Until 1982 he worked as an art restorer. From 1984 he studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and in 1985 took part in the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York , where he met the conceptual artists Joseph Kosuth and Hans Haacke and the photographer Martha Rosler . In 1986 he moved to the University of Hartford School of Art in Hartford , Connecticut, and in the same year became an assistant to Ashley Bickerton, whom he worked with until 1990. In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate from this university . The artist lives in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania , and New York.

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Mark Dion has been a passionate collector for over 20 years. Out of this obsessive passion, he develops objects, sculptures and photographic works and arranges them into installations that often seem like natural history showrooms. In his outdoor stagings he combines natural history phenomena in artfully arranged scenarios , in which he not only includes biological but also philosophical considerations and connects them with the current art discourse. He often works with natural history museums and collections, but disputes with them the sole interpretation of nature in his work.

For the contribution Grotto of the Sleeping Bear to the Skulptur.Projekte Münster 1997, Dion built an artificial grotto out of earth and tree trunks , which he covered with rubble stones. He closed the entrance with a pane of glass. In the cave he placed a lying bear made of faux fur with half-open glass eyes, which he surrounded with civilization garbage, such as empty cartridges , lance tips , an old wheel and broken bottles. For the exhibition Concerning Hunting (What the hunting concerns), 2008, he arranged in Kunstraum Dornbirn both fallen and standing high seats and several hunting lodges, the interiors of which he endowed with hunting known handy everyday objects. In one he built up an extensive library of the woad trade. In another, the visitor found an opulently laid table with porcelain with hunting motifs and stag horn cutlery , with which the artist referred to the aspect of hunting as food procurement. In 2010 the Georg Kargl Gallery in Vienna exhibited a high standard for hunters.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Daniel Birnbaum : Stream of Conscience . In: Artforum International 11, 1999, ISSN  0004-3532 , pp. 116-121.
  • Dieter Buchhart , Verena Gamper (Ed.): Mark Dion. Concerning hunting . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2197-4 , (published for the traveling exhibition of the same name).
  • Petra Gördüren, Dirk Luckow (Eds.): Dopplereffekt. Pictures in Art and Science , Kunsthalle zu Kiel January 31 to May 2, 2010. DuMont Buchverlag, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9295-2
  • Burkhard Riemenschneider u. a .: Art at the Turn of Millennium , Taschen, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8228-7195-8 .
  • Jason Simon: Jean Paineve and Mark Dion . In: Parkett 44, 1995, ISBN 3-907509-94-3 ; Pp. 154-171.
  • M. Revier Schwendener: Mark Dion: "American Fine Arts" in the Aldrich Museum . In: Artforum International Summer 2003, ISSN  0004-3532 , pp. 192–193
  • Colleen J. Sheehy (Ed.): Cabinet of Curiosities: Mark Dion and the University as Installation . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis Mn 2006, ISBN 978-0-8166-4470-4 , (exhibition catalog, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum Minneapolis, February 24 - May 27, 2001).

Web links

Commons : Mark Dion  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nato Thompson et al. a .: Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom , Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, MIT Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-262-20161-2
personal data
SURNAME Dion, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American object artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH New Bedford , Massachusetts, USA