Mark Dion
dal 22/10/2015 al 6/2/2016
Segnalato da
22/10/2015
Mark Dion
MARTa Herford Museum of Art and Design, Herford
Wayward Wilderness. With retrospective character, Dion takes us on a safari through the vast spaces of the museum. The visitor is led through five completely different worlds of experience in the perception of nature.
With his artistic “research work” on nature, his passion for collection and his precise ecological questioning, the American artist Mark Dion engages with the primeval relationship between man and his environment.
Yet instead of lapsing into romanticized yearning for nature, he specifically questions traditional ways of thought and teaching. As Mark Dion puts it: “My work is not really about nature, but rather it is a consideration of ideas of nature.”
Employing philosophical clarity, humour and great sensuality, Mark Dion transforms the Gehry Galleries into a tour of nature study laboratories, museum depositories and mysterious hunting grounds. Highly detailed raised hides describe the hunter as both an authority on nature and a hedonistic sportsman. The artist repeatedly slips into the role of an explorer discovering new worlds with a mixture of fascinated curiosity and fear of the unknown.
Elsewhere, Mark Dion uses a more drastic image to spotlight today’s accelerating environmental destruction: a mobile diorama featuring a bison and a wolf as well as an aviary containing live birds bringing nature – or representatives of it – right inside the gallery.
Alongside participation in many international exhibitions, in 1997 the artist (born in 1961) took part with a major contribution in the Biennale in Venice and in 2012 in the documenta 13 in Kassel.
Guided tours
regularly (German): Saturdays and Sundays at noon and 3 p.m.
Extra tour with the Curator: Tuesday, 3 November, 5 January, 2 February, at 4 p.m.
“Letzte Blicke” (final views) with the Artistic Director Roland Nachtigäller: Sunday, 7. February 2016, at 3 p.m.
Tickets: 2,50 Euro plus entrance fee, no application, 25 participants max.
Image: Park, Mobile Wilderness Unit, 2001 Verschiedene Materialien 380 x 170 x 290 cm
Courtesy the artist & Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Foto: Gerhard Koller
Press contact:
Sarah Niesel | Nelly Birgmeier Tel: +49 (0)5221-99 4430-27 fax: +49 (0)5221-99 4430-18 presse@marta-herford.de
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Opening: Friday, 23. October, 19.30 Uhr
Marta Herford
Goebenstr. 2–10 32052 Herford Deutschland
Hours
Tue – Sun and bank holidays: 11 – 18 h
1st Wed of every month: 11 – 21 h
Admission
Adults: 8 Euro
Concessions*: 4,50 Euro
Children: (under the age of 10) free of charge