"Dion’s current project, Concerning Hunting, examines hunting as a traditional, but controversial, cultural practice. One of the fascinating things about hunting is its fundamental contradictoriness: the sensitivity of the hunter and his profound knowledge about what nature requires are also expressed through the act of killing animals. Dion’s artistic examinations do not focus on nature as such, but rather on the hunt as a way culture deals with it"--
Artistic photobook. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, November 27, 2010 - February 13, 2011; Artists Space, New York, Fall 2011; Villa Stuck, Munich, Spring 2012.
This title opens up over 20 years of work by respected artists Mark Dean Veca - including paintings and drawings, all-immersive psychdelic exhibition spaces and limited edition pieces. Veca's colourful, dynamic paintings pop off the page in bright red, orange and turquoise hues with curvaceous lines inspired by the underground comic world. His work incorporates everything from pop culture references like Tony the Tiger to Americana elements like the Lincoln Memorial, to religious iconography like skulls, Buddhas and Ganeshas.
Dutch artist, Mark Manders' first UK solo exhibition takes the form of an ambitious commission for BALTIC. This work showcases work from Manders' exploration Self-Portrait as a Building, a project the artist has been working on since he was 18 years old. It also contains essays by Penelope Curtis, and Roland Van de Sompel.