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Marc Quinn
Artist's Name: Marc Quinn
Preferred medium: sculpture / plastik
birth year: 1964
Nationality: GB
City: London

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Quinn's sculpture, paintings and drawings often deal with the distanced relationship we have with our bodies, highlighting how the conflict between the 'natural' and 'cultural' has a grip on the contemporary psyche. In 1999, Quinn began a series of marble sculptures of amputees as a way of re-reading the aspirations of Greek and Roman statuary and their depictions of an idealised whole. One such work depicted Alison Lapper, a woman who was born without arms, when she was heavily pregnant. Quinn subsequently enlarged this work to make it a major piece of public art for the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square. Other key themes in his work include genetic modification and hybridism. Garden (2000), for instance, is a walk-through installation of impossibly beautiful flowers that will never decay, or his 'Eternal Spring' sculptures, featuring flowers preserved in perfect bloom by being plunged into sub-zero silicone. Quinn has also explored the potential artistic uses of DNA, making a portrait of a sitter by extracting strands of DNA and placing it in a test-tube. DNA Garden (2001), contains the DNA of over 75 plant species as well as 2 humans: a re-enactment of the Garden of Eden on a cellular level. Quinn's diverse and poetic work meditates on our attempts to understand or overcome the transience of human life through scientific knowledge and artistic expression. Source: Whitecube.com

important exhibitions from Marc Quinn

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Marc Quinn Selfs 1991-2006 Foundation Beyeler Riehen CH 08.06.2009
Marc Quinn - Cerith Wyn Evans White Cube/Jay Jopling London GB 14.04.2010
Marc Quinn - Evolution White Cube/Jay Jopling London GB 25.01.2008
Marc Quinn - Chemical Life Support White Cube/Jay Jopling London GB 04.03.2005
Highlights from the Collection Goss Michael Foundation Dallas US 19.11.2010
Marc Quinn Groningen NL 29.04.2006
Marc Quinn: Flesh Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA Dublin IR 01.07.2004
Die Kunst ist super! Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin Berlin DE 05.09.2009
In The Making… Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin Berlin DE 12.05.2009
Marc Quinn Mary Boone Gallery 541 West New York US 08.01.2005

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Galleries representing
Marc Quinn:

Art of this century
Daniel Blau Galerie
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Galerie Thomas Modern
Galleria Alessandra Bonomo
Mary Boone Gallery 541 West
Mary Boone Gallery Fifth Av
White Cube/Jay Jopling

Collections representing
Marc Quinn

Cass Sculpture Foundation
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne
Deutsche Bank Collection
Fondazione Prada
Goss Michael Foundation
Guastalla Foundation
MARCA Museum
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus
Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism
Tate Britain
The Berardo Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art