Mark Dion. [ Widmungsexemplar ]

160 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. Signiert und mit einer Widmung. / Very good and clean copy. Signed by the artist with "many thanks and best wishes" to katrin. '97 - „Mark Dion is an American artist who metamorphoses into an ecologist, bio-chemist, detective and archaeologist. In his gallery installations around Europe and America since the 1980s, Dion has constructed the laboratories, experiments and museum cachés of the great historical naturalists-following in their footsteps in his own adventurous, eco-inspired journeys to the tropics. Dion crosses Darwin, Disney and Hitchcock in work ranging from hundreds of photographic 'specimens' documenting all the insect life in a single metre of meadow, to the meticulous gathering and labelling of the rubbish tossed out over hundreds of years from a sixteenth-century Italian castle. His research and magical collections are presented in installational still-lifes which combine taxidermic animals with lab equipment with artefacts, like walk-through wunderkammers, life-sized cabinets of curiosity. The artist is creating a permanent garden in Britain in 1998, an orchard of fruits facing extinction planted in the form of a tree of life - a sculpturalgene pool for the future“ / Miwon Kwon in conversation with Mark Dion -- Lisa Graziose, A Natural History of Wonder and a Wonderful History of 'Nature' -- Norman Bryson Mark Dion and the Birds of Antwerp -- John Berger Why Look at Animals? (extract), 1980 -- Mark Dion Tales from the Dark Side, 1988 -- Project for the Belize Zoo, 1990 -- Taxonomy of Non-endangered Species, 1990 -- M. Cuvier'Discovers' Extinction, 1990 -- Concrete Jungle: A Discussion with Alexis Rockman (extract), 1991 -- The Delirium of Alfred Russel Wallace, 1994 -- A Little Bird Told Me, 1995 -- The Natural History Box: Preservation, Categorization and Display, 1995 -- The Tasting Garden, 1996. ISBN 9780714836591