Memory Box by Mark Dion at Laumeier Sculpture Park
Laumeier Sculpture Park is proud to present Mark Dion:
Follies. Mark Dion has fashioned a world-wide reputation as an innovative
sculptor and installation artist whose points of departure include the
intersections of the historical and the contemporary, as well as the man-made
and natural worlds from February 15 through May 24, 2020. Mark Dion: Follies
presents many of the artist’s architectural works, ranging from hunting blinds
and storage sheds to mobile carts and shacks. These structures serve as
fictitious bases for the enjoyment of nature and the study of natural specimens
by scientists, botanists and naturalists. Visitors will experience sculptural
installations such as Hunting Blind (The Glutton) and Hunting Blind (The Dandy
Rococo), Dion’s elaborate takes on the outdoor protective structures used by
hunters, as well as The Memory Box, a shed filled with dozens of keepsake
objects stored in individual containers that suggest the ways that inanimate
objects are associated with treasured memories.
Laumeier's exhibition Mark Dion: Follies is here from Storm
King Art Center, a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson
Valley where Mark Dion: Follies exhibition was featured this past year.
Mark Dion was born in 1961 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He initially studied in 1981-2 at the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford in Connecticut, which awarded him a BFA (1986) and honorary doctorate in 2002. From 1983 to 1984 he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and then the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program (1984-1985). He is an Honorary Fellow of Falmouth University in the UK (2014), and has an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (Ph.D.) from The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia (2015).
The Mark Dion Follies was held over until September due to Covid - 19.
