{"product_id":"15983-mark-dion","title":"Mark Dion","description":"\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 184.3pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eFor over twenty years, the repertoire of American artist Mark Dion (*1961 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) has included staged workbenches, dusty storage vaults, stuffed bears, and tarred birds. Ostensibly, his installations, interventions, performances, and photographs critique humankind’s often cruel treatment of nature. However, the artist also demonstrates that “nature” is a mere construct that is constantly being reshaped and reinterpreted. Dion’s current project, \u003cI\u003eConcerning Hunting,\u003c\/I\u003e examines hunting as a traditional, but controversial, cultural practice. One of the fascinating things about hunting is its fundamental contradictoriness: the sensitivity of the hunter and his profound knowledge about what nature requires are also expressed through the act of killing animals. Dion’s artistic examinations do not focus on nature as such, but rather on the hunt as a way culture deals with it.\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 184.3pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cFONT size=2 face=TheSans\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans\"\u003eExhibition schedule: Kunstraum Dornbirn, April 3 – June 1, 2008 · Aarhus Kunstbygning, June 27 – October 26, 2008 · Galleria Civica di Modena,\u0026nbsp;February\u0026nbsp;1 – April 26, 2009 · Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster, May 17 – October 11, 2009· Kunsthalle Krems, November 8, 2009 – February 14, 2010\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874804756744,"sku":"9783775721974","price":29.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775721974_ce3b6065-b0da-4336-b23a-a981b633e115.jpg?v=1744115236","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/15983-mark-dion","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}