Mark Dion - Palaeartic

Sheet 1 from the six-part series by Mark Dion for Griffelkunst Hamburg 2014.
Brigitte Bedei: "Mark Dion has been dealing with the history of how we deal with nature and its representation since the mid-1980s, which he critically analyzes as a cultural construction. His works can be understood as reflections on systems of order and collection, how they are assigned to the system (...) In the Palearctic region, for example, cow, horse, pig, goat, dog, cat, marten and rat can be seen from bottom to top.The classification structure of the animal groups is laid out quite simply from large to small and is more reminiscent of the representation of the Bremen Town Musicians than of a scientific categorization for the representation of individual animal groups in so-called faunal provinces.The silhouette-like representation is also reminiscent of silhouettes from the 18th century, for example by Philipp Otto Runge, and gives the pictures a rather romantic look and fairytale take on the animal world order that Mark Dion so deliberately ironic."