Mark Dion
Mark Dion (* 1961 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA ) is an American artist, object and installation artist.
Life
Dion comes from a working class family until he was 18, he visited a museum. In his hometown, he experienced the decline of the fishing industry and the associated social and environmental problems. Until 1982 he worked as an art restorer. From 1984 he studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and participated at the 1985 Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where the conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth and Hans Haacke and Martha Rosler met the photographer. In 1986 he moved to the University of Hartford School of Art in Hartford, Connecticut and was in the same year assistant Ashley Bickerton, which he stood up to 1990 page. In 2003, contrary to this university the honorary doctorate. The artist lives in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania and New York.
Work
Mark Dion is an avid collector for over twenty years. From this passion obessiven He develops objects, sculptures and photographs and arranges them into installations that often seem like natural history exhibition rooms. In its external productions he combined in artful compiled scenarios naturalistic phenomena, in which he includes not only biological, but also philosophical considerations and connects them to the current art discourse. He often works with natural history museums and collections together, makes them in his works, however, the sole natural interpretation in dispute.
For the contribution to the Grotto of the Sleeping Bear Skulptur.Projekte Münster 1997 Dion built of earth and tree trunks, an artificial grotto which he disguised with rubble. The entrance he closed with a glass plate. In the cave, he placed one created from faux fur, lying bear with half-open glass eyes, he surrounded himself with waste products of civilization such as empty cartridges, lance tip, an old wheel and broken bottles. For the exhibition Concerning Hunting ( As for hunting) in 2008, he arranged in the art room Dornbirn in Dornbirn both fallen and standing high seats, as well as various hunting lodges, the interiors of which he endowed with hunting known union everyday objects. In one, he built up an extensive library of Waidhandwerks. In another, the visitor found a opulently decorated table with porcelain with hunting motifs and Hirschhorn cutlery, with the pointing of the artists on the aspect of hunting for food procurement. In 2010, the Galerie Georg Kargl presented in Vienna from a hunter high level.