The artwork depicts a tattered cardboard box containing a mounted taxidermy head of a tiger. The vibrant orange and black stripes of the tiger's fur stand out against the muted tones of the weathered box. The striking image suggests a commentary on consumerism, as the once-living creature is now confined within a discarded shipping container. The artist's use of found materials and the juxtaposition of the wild and the mundane invites the viewer to consider the complex relationship between humans and the natural world. ...
Mark Dion is an American artist who metamorphoses into an explorer, biochemist, detective and archeologist.
In his gallery installations around Europe and America since the 1980s, Dion has constructed the laboratories, experiments and museum caches of the great historical naturalists, following in their footsteps in his own adventurous, eco-inspired journeys to the tropics.
His research and magical collections are presented in installational still lifes which combine taxidermic animals with lab equipment with artefacts, like walk-through Wunderkammers, life-sized cabinets of curiosity. ...
Founded by Fabienne Leclerc in 2001, In Situ began in the 13th district of Paris alongside a group of galleries in rue Louise Weiss. After seven years in the 6th, the gallery moved to the Marais in November 2013, then to the Stalingrad district in January 2017.
Since October 2019, In Situ - fabienne leclerc has moved into a new space in Romainville, accompanied by Air de Paris, gallery Jocelyn Wolff, gallery Sator the FRAC Ile-de-France as well as the Fiminco Foundation.
The ambition of In Situ - fabienne leclerc is to promote young and emerging artists in France and internationally, and to support its established artists in the long term. The gallery strives to support and promote the work of its artists in the gallery, in associated museums and institutions, and to produce and edit artist catalogues and books. ...
