Marc Quinn
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Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a British modern visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, and painting.
Quinn discusses "what it is to be human in the world today" by addressing topics such as the body, genetics, culture, and media.
His art has utilized a variety of materials, from blood, bread, and flowers to marble and stainless steel.
Solo exhibitions at Sir John Soane's Museum, Tate, National Portrait Gallery, Fondation Beyeler, Fondazione Prada, and South London Gallery have all featured Quinn.
The artist was a prominent participant of the Young British Artists movement, which also included Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst. Quinn has been praised internationally for his work on the first edition of the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2004, for which he displayed Alison Lapper Pregnant.
Self (1991–present) by Quinn's infamous frozen self-portrait series made of his own blood, Self (1991–1999) was a retrospective at Fondation Beyeler in 2009.Quinn lives and works in London.
Early works: 1991–2000
Self, Quinn's first work to gain international recognition, was shown in 1991, when he was 27 years old. Self (1991) is a self-portrait made from a frozen cast of ten pints of the artist's blood. It's an ongoing project in which the artist performs himself every five years in the form of a new cast with new blood. The artworks are mounted in clear plexiglass-glass boxes on top of freezing cabinets. This is a representation of the works, which is largely dependent.
The National Portrait Gallery in London owns Self (2006).
Quinn stopped drinking in 1995. At this time, Emotional Detox, a series of seven sculptures made of lead and cast from the artist's own body, was created. In each sculpture Quinn's body, it's being torn apart and reconfigured, reflecting both physical and mental warfare.
At Tate Britain, London (1995), Groninger Museum, The Netherlands (1998), and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2015).
Quinn's most influential works, including organic matter, were on display at Fondazione Prada, Milan, in 2000. The garden is a 12-meter-long, 3-meter-high structure in which thousands of flowers are frozen in silicone oil. The flowers in the sculpture never bloom in the same time of year or in the same regions of the world. (The work now belongs to the Fondazione Prada collection).
Life and career
Quinn was born in London on January 8, 1964 to a French mother and a British father. He spent his early years in Paris, where his father, a physicist, worked at BIPM (Bureau International des Poids et Mesures). Quinn recalls an early fascination with the scientific instruments in his father's lab, particularly atomic clocks. At Robinson College, Cambridge, he attended Millfield (a private boarding school in Somerset) and researched art history and history.
Quinn was the first artist to be represented by gallerist Jay Jopling in the early 1990s. Self (1991), a frozen self-portrait made from nine pints of the artist's blood, was the artist's first exhibition with Jopling in 1991.
Quinn and several others were recognized for their radical contribution to the art's making and experiencing in the 1990s. Cornelia Parker, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, and Tracey Emin founded the 'Young British Artists' group in 1992, and was led by writer Michael Corris in Artforum.
Quinn's solo exhibition in 1995 at Tate Britain, where new sculptures were on display as part of the Art Now series. During 1997 Quinn's work Self (1991), an exhibition of Sensation at the Royal Academy in London. Quinn's Self, as well as Sarah Lucas' and Damien Hirst's work, were already well known to the British public. The exhibition attracted wide media attention and attracted a record number of visitors for a contemporary art show. The exhibition then moved to Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
He had a solo exhibition at the South London Gallery in 1998, and he had a solo show at Kunstverein Hannover in 1999. In 2000, the Groninger Museum held a solo exhibition of Quinn's work. In 2000, the artist was invited to have a solo show at Fondazione Prada in Milan, where he unveiled an innovative new work Garden. He had a solo exhibition at Tate Liverpool in 2002 that featured new works and photography, and it came with the Liverpool Biennial, where Quinn presented 1+1=3. The National Portrait Gallery held a solo exhibition in 2001 for Sir John Sulston's genomic portrait.
In 2004, Quinn was given the first commission for the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square, for which he created Alison Lapper's marble sculpture pregnant disabled artist.
Marc Quinn's works were on view in a solo exhibition focused on his latest figurative sculpture, and the Fondation Beyeler held a solo exhibition of Marc Quinn's ongoing series Self in 2006, encompassing all sculptures from 1991 to 2006.
Quinn was asked to produce a monumental work for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics 2012, for which he created Breath, a monumental statue of Alison Lapper held up by air.
At Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, curated by Germano Celant, Quinn held a solo exhibition on the occasion of the 55th Venice Biennale for Art in 2013.
In 2013, Quinn's first monograph Memory Box by Germano Celant was published. In 2014, Gerry Fox produced and directed Making Waves, a feature-length documentary about Quinn's life and work. In 2015, Quinn's Somerset House opened a solo exhibition focusing on new sculptures.
Marc Quinn held a major exhibition at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London in 2017. The exhibition, which was the first in a new series of collaborations with contemporary artists, designers, and architects, inspired by Sir John Soane's spirit, was the first to bring the collection to life in new ways.