MARK DION
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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Raptor
Mark Dion appropriates his language and mode of expression from science. In doing so he hopes to question, from an artist's vantage, how we construct our images of nature and its history. His work thus forays into archaeology, zoology, and ecology, bringing rich spoils of disturbing and illuminating details from these disciplines. His work recreates the Wunderkammer of the sixteenth and later centuries and through his installations open up a contemporary collection of curios, in which, however, the exhibits’ meanings are twisted so as to make us aware of today's very decisive scientific language and how it dominates our understanding of nature.
Mark Dion's works are included in important collections such as the Tate Gallery (London), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Fonds national d'art contemporain (France). The lithograph Raptor was included in the Serpentine Gallery's 2000 exhibition "The Greenhouse Effect".
