Artist in Residence - Mark Dion

During his residency, Mark Dion (USA) will be working on a project based on the Schildbach Xylotheque that will be exhibited at Documenta 13 in Kassel. The Xylotheque, a wood-library crafted by Carl Schildbach from 1771 to 1799 and housed in the Natural History Museum, Kassel, Germany, is one of the treasures of Enlightenment scientific culture. Dion, who works about and with living things, respectively, their dissected and preserved remnants, is adding six new books to the xylotheque, each presenting a specific wood from one of the five formerly missing continents, to symbolically complete the library’s encyclopedic endeavor.

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