About The Work
Tropical Collectors (Wallace, Bates and Spruce) refers to Victorian naturalists and tropical collectors who were associated with some of the first biological and scientific investigations. This two color blue and red lithograph is a depiction of Dion’s installation of field equipment the collectors would have used, which was featured at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and FIAC in 2009. Here Dion focuses on the methodology of the naturalists opposed to their findings.
About Mark Dion
From The Magazine
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- News & Events: Fall Art Preview: 21 Museum Shows to Catch This September, November, & October
- News & Events: "Like Noah Hunting the Animals He Saved On the Ark": Mark Dion on the Contradictions of Environmentalism
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Two color lithograph on Somerset satin white 300gsm
11.00 x 15.00 in
27.9 x 38.1 cm
This work is signed and numbered by the artist.
About The Work
Tropical Collectors (Wallace, Bates and Spruce) refers to Victorian naturalists and tropical collectors who were associated with some of the first biological and scientific investigations. This two color blue and red lithograph is a depiction of Dion’s installation of field equipment the collectors would have used, which was featured at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and FIAC in 2009. Here Dion focuses on the methodology of the naturalists opposed to their findings.
About Mark Dion
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: IFPDA Print Fair Preview - An Interview with The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies
- Interviews & Features: 9 Artists Changing the Way We Think About the Environment
- News & Events: Fall Art Preview: 21 Museum Shows to Catch This September, November, & October
- News & Events: "Like Noah Hunting the Animals He Saved On the Ark": Mark Dion on the Contradictions of Environmentalism
- News & Events: Hate Parties? The Boring Adult's Guide to a Sensible, Edifying Miami Art Week
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