Mark Dion
Dark Museum, 2011
Mixed media
118.11 x 173.23 x 165.35 in
Photo: JC Lett
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American artist Mark Dion has constructed laboratories, experiments and museum caches since the 1980s in Europe and America, fol- lowing the footsteps of great historical naturalists in his own research...
American artist Mark Dion has constructed laboratories, experiments and museum caches since the 1980s in Europe and America, fol- lowing the footsteps of great historical naturalists in his own research and collections. The Dark Museum resembles a hunter’s shack or country cabin while the interior is decorated like a museum from another time. Derived both from the ordinary and the bizarre, from botany and fantasy, its significance turns out to be ambiguous.