Portrait of The Curator, 2019

The artwork pledge

• QUALITY EDUCATION
• AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
• INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
• CLIMATE ACTION
• LIFE BELOW WATER
• LIFE ON LAND

Tags

• Amazon Rainforest
• Animals
• Anthropocene
• Anthropomorphism
• Archaeology
• Biodiversity
• Biotechnology
• Cabinet of Curiosities
• Climate Change
• Consumerism
• Drawing
• Dystopia
• Endangered Species
• Ernst Haeckel
• Extinction
• Figurative
• France
• Global Warming
• Industrial Revolution
• Installation
• Land Art
• Landscape
• Massachusetts
• Mixed Media
• Natural History
• Nature
• New York City
• North America
• Nostalgia
• Paris
• Pencil on Paper
• Poaching
• Pollution
• Robert Smithson
• Sculpture 3D
• Social
• Spiral Jetty
• United States
• Wildfire
• Wood
• Works on Paper
• Zoonosis

About this artwork

A pair of scissors, a watch, jewelry and pins are some of the objects over which a duck stands. Humorously depicting a curator, Dion assembled this sculpture with clutter.

​​Mark Dion is an American artist with multiple hats: explorer, biochemist, detective and archeologist. His work dwells on how Western civilization constructs and categorizes natural processes. Curiosity cabinets or wunderkammers have been a source of inspiration allowing him to scrutinize the heritage of 19th century scientists and thinkers alike. Biodiversity is at the core of his practice, stirring inconvenient questions about the future our other species as well as humans

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