But as the label explains, Dion is a real artist, who plays roles of scientist, curator, archeologist, and scholar to create elaborate installations in the territory where Night at the Museum meets Borges. (artnews.com)
Often creating elaborate installations restaging icons of modern design and engineering using incongruous materials, from a model Le Corbusier's infamous 1952 Unite d'Habitation made from foamcore to a plywood McDonald's, he creates unexpected juxtapositions that are both humorous and politically - minded. (artspace.com)
Co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art with Minneapolis's Walker Art Center, the American artist's first comprehensive U.S. survey tracks his development through early installations made of hundreds of drawings on paper napkins and disassembled silk flowers pinned to the wall through the more elaborate installations large mirror mosaics of recent years. (artsandculturetx.com)