Mark Dion - Unoriginal Sins

ARTISTS & CURATORS. 1988.

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NYC: John Gibson Gallery, 1988

15 x 10.5cm, 2pp typographic design announcement card for a group show with works from Davey, Dion, Messner, Noland and Stockholder and some curators - verso gallery details. Unmailed example - VG+.

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NO MAN’S LAND. ESPACES NATURELS. TERRAINS D’EXPERIMENTATION. 2018.

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Luxembourg: Musee d'art Moderne, 2018

21 x 13.4cm, 24pp plus wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for a group show which included Mark Dion, Hayoun Kwon, Martha Atienza, Helen Lucien, Marc Pallain, Brandon Ballengee, Piero Gilardi, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger and others. All of the work was environmental or utilised material from the natural world. Short essay in French, gGerman and English . VG.

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MARK DION. 1997. SIGNED BY DION.

paul robertson — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:12:58 +0000

London: Phaidon Press, 1997
29 x 25cm, 154pp. Card covers. First edition of this monograph on the work of explorer, biochemist, detective, archaeologist and artist. Colour images throughout. This example is signed by Dion in blue ink on the first blank page. VG.

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THEATRUM MUNDI. 1997.

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Koln: Salon Verlag, 1997
15 x 10.5cm, 32pp. Original card covers. Artist's book with appropriated drawings of cabinets of curiosity and other similar scientific illustrations of vitrines of animals and other natural histories. This is one of a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. VG.

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MARK DION PRESENTS THE OPEN RARITIES AND NATURALITIES CHAMBER. 2002. ONE OF ONLY 200 SIGNED & NUMBERED COPIES.

paul robertson — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:31:48 +0000

Koln: Salon Verlag, 2002
19 x 12cm, 194pp. Card covers. As with all of the “Ex Libris” series of books the artist was asked to nominate a book from their own collection. That book was then reprinted as an appropriated artist's book and the artist supplied a specially designed Ex Libris sticker which was signed and numbered in pencil by Dion. Dion chose “Die Heoffnete Raritaten und Naturalien Kammer” - a book on art and rarities, authored by Paul Jacob Marperger in 1704. This book was a major interest on Dion's art practice. This was one of only 200 such copies published. This was the first of the Ex Libris series to be published by Salon. Long out of print. Fine.

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200 YEARS, 200 OBJECTS/ANOTHER KIND OF BALANCE. 2013.

paul robertson — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:47:14 +0000

Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery, 2013
21 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card for a joint show by Dion and Barclay where both investigated the Royal Edinburgh Hospital on its bicentenary and created new work. VG+.

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BUREAU FOR THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF SURREALISM & ITS LEGACY. 2005.

paul robertson — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:43:26 +0000

Manchester: The Manchester Museum, 2005
21 x 15cm, 4pp. The announcement for the title academic body set up by Dion - an investigation into the Manchester Museum's surrealist related collections: "the documentation of (Dion's) opportunist encounters with the neglected draws (sic) and forgotten recesses... It is home to redundant labels, orphaned mounts, defunct teaching models, botanical freaks, Egyptian fakes and the minutae that has fallen through the cracks of museum practice." Fine.

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