This whimsical artwork depicts a "Salmon of Knowledge" swimming through a stream, with various prominent philosophers, sociologists, and thinkers represented as fish swimming alongside it. The vibrant blue-and-red color scheme and organic, flowing composition create a dynamic, interdisciplinary visual metaphor. The artwork seems to satirize the notion of academic knowledge, personifying influential figures from diverse fields in a playful, school-of-fish arrangement. Through this clever visual pun, the artist likely aims to comment on the interconnectedness of ideas and the collaborative nature of intellectual discourse across disciplines. ...
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. ...
