Marc Quinn

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Alison Lapper Pregnant on the fourth pillar of Trafalgar Square

Marc Quinn (born January 8, 1964 in London ) is a British artist . His best known works are Alison Lapper Pregnant , a statue of Alison Lapper that stood on the fourth pillar of Trafalgar Square in 2007 , and self , a sculpture of his head made from his frozen blood, and Garden (2000).

life and work

Quinn studied history and art history at the Robinson College of Cambridge University and graduated in 1985 from. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBA), although his work was not part of the Freeze exhibition of 1988, which Quinn's former roommate Damien Hirst put together and the YBA united for the first time. Quinn didn't become known until the early 1990s. He was the first artist to be represented by Jay Jopling and contributed work to Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition .

Quinn's guide in the world of art is self (1991), a frozen sculpture of his head made of 4.5 liters of blood that he has extracted from his own body over five months. Such an amount of blood corresponds roughly to the total amount of blood that is in an adult human body. Self , like many of the YBA's works, was bought by Charles Saatchi in 1991 for an estimated £ 13,000 . The press reported in 2002 that the sculpture was destroyed by construction workers who expanded Saatchi's kitchen for his partner, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson . They pulled out the plug of the freezer in which the sculpture was kept at −12 ° C. This has not been confirmed as the work was exhibited entirely by Saatchi at the opening of his new gallery in London in 2003. In April 2005 self was sold to a US collector for £ 1.5 million.

The first of 5 sculptures made every 5 years was Self in 1991 . Self is based on a stainless steel freezing system and is enclosed in a plexiglass box. The special way of presentation that Marc Quinn chose for Self in 1991 is reminiscent of the artist Joseph Beuys, who dealt in more detail with so-called showcase art. The sculpture was shown for the first time in the Grob Gallery, then in the Saatchi Gallery and later during the multiple exhibition called Sensation. The cast shows Marc Quinn's face up to the neck. With the eyes and mouth closed, the figure appears to be dead or asleep. The ears as well as the chin area show a mutilated appearance due to broken parts. Marc Quinn gave the figure this expression by not working on the cast after it was removed from the mold. The fact that Marc Quinn refrained from adding characterizing and personal attributes enables the viewer to focus on the pure work of art. Because of its appearance, the figure is reminiscent of the appearance of a death mask. Still, what the artist shows the viewer is a living mask. Due to the bluish and red color appearance, the work is reminiscent of veins or arteries and again refers to the human body. The blood the artist used is re-categorized as the color transcended into living material with the help of art. If one refers to the time in which the work was created, the thought arises that Self 1991 could possibly give a reference to the AIDS age and its culture. The autologous blood, which is the main component of this work of art, creates a direct parallel to this infectious disease, as it spreads throughout the body through the blood in the veins.

Quinn's next major work was the frozen garden, which he created for Miuccia Prada in 2000 . A garden full of plants that could never grow was preserved at low temperature. Garden seemed to anticipate some of the environmental issues that later became significant.

Quinn also made a series of marble sculptures depicting individuals who were either naturally missing limbs or had been amputated . This culminated in the 15-ton marble statue of Alison Lapper , a woman born with no arms and short legs. The sculpture was on the fourth pedestal in Trafalgar Square in London in 2007 . The Plinthenkommission "Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group" exchanged Alison Lapper Pregnant in 2007 by Thomas Schütte's Model for a Hotel in 2007 from.

His portrait of John E. Sulston , who received the Nobel Prize for “Genetic Regulation of Organ Development and Programmed Cell Death” as part of the Human Genome Project , is in the National Portrait Gallery in London. It consists of bacteria in agar jelly that contain Sulston's DNA .

sphinx

In April 2006, Sphinx , a sculpture by Kate Moss , was unveiled. The sculpture shows Moss in a yoga position with arms and legs crossed behind his head. In May 2007 Quinn exhibited at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City . In August 2008, Quinn unveiled another pure gold sculpture by Kate Moss.

2010 was followed by Allanah Buck Catman Chelsea Michael Pamela and Thomas with sculptures of the transsexual porn actors Allanah Starr and Buck Angel , the body artist Catman , the breast model Chelsea Charms , the singer Michael Jackson , the actress Pamela Anderson and the trans man Thomas Beatie .

He was married to author Georgia Byng until 2014 , with whom he has two children.

Planet in Singapore

Selected solo exhibitions

  • 1988: Bronze sculpture at Jay Jopling / Otis Gallery, London
  • 1990: Bread sculpture in the Nikki Diana Marquardt gallery, Paris
  • 1991: Out of Time at Grob Gallery, London
  • 1995: Art Now. Emotional Detox: The Seven Deadly Sins at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London
  • 1998: Marc Quinn - Incarnate at the Gagosian Gallery , New York City
  • 1999: Kunstverein Hannover , Hannover
  • 2000: Fondazione Prada, Milan
  • 2000: Groninger Museum , Groningen, Netherlands
  • 2001: Italian Landscape, Habitat, London
  • 2001: Marc Quinn: Garden at Art of This Century, Paris
  • 2001: A Genomic Portrait: Sir John Sulston by Marc Quinn at the National Portrait Gallery , London
  • 2002: Italian Landscapes from Garden 2000 at the Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Leeds, England
  • 2004: Flesh at the Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin, Ireland
  • 2005: Flesh at Mary Boone Gallery, New York City
  • 2005: Chemical Life Support in the White Cube , London
  • 2005: Alison Lapper Pregnant, Fourth Pedestal, Trafalgar Square, London
  • 2006: Marc Quinn: Recent Sculptures, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
  • 2006: Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma , Rome
  • 2007: Sphinx at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York City
  • 2007: DHC / ART Fondation pour l'art contemporain, Montreal

Web links

Commons : Marc Quinn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saatchi sells Britart classic for £ 1.5m at guardian.co.uk, accessed January 26, 2013
  2. ↑ ALLAN, DIANA: Marc Quinn. Incarnate. London 1998. p. 10 ff.
  3. ↑ GÖRDÜREN, PETRA: The portrait after the portrait. Positions of portrait art in the late 20th century. Berlin 2013.
  4. ↑ GÖRDÜREN, PETRA: The portrait after the portrait. Positions of portrait art in the late 20th century. Berlin 2013.
  5. ↑ SECOND, ARMIN: The I is something else. Art at the end of the 20th century. Cologne 2000.
  6. ↑ Faith, hope, love, death. Kunsthalle Wien Graphic Collection Albertina Ritter, Klagenfurt, ed. by Christoph Geissmar - Brandi. Vienna 1995.
  7. ↑ Square's naked sculpture revealed at bbc.co.uk, accessed January 26, 2013
  8. ↑ Model Moss cast in bronze statue at bbc.co.uk, accessed January 26, 2013
  9. ↑ Allanah Buck Catman Chelsea Michael Pamela and Thomas ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at marcquinn.com, accessed January 26, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marcquinn.com
  10. ↑ Marc Quinn: Just don't call it a freak show at guardian.co.uk, accessed January 26, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Quinn, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH London