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From leading auction houses worldwide, Ged Quinn on Mutualart
In Ged Quinn’s paintings, varying elements intrude into the work disguised as surfaces, such as an aerial view of Auschwitz appearing as a decoration in the glaze on a vase (Camp 2004), or a map of America visible in the fur of a dog (I like America and America Likes Me)…
Painting
A cherry cake, beautifully painted in the demure style of a 17th-century Dutch still life, sits atop a glass dish. The shape into which it has been cut, a sort of mock-medieval cross, is that of Spandau prison, the infamous Berlin detention centre and symbol of uneasy Cold War accord to which a handful of high-ranking Nazi officers were banished following their conviction at the Nuremberg Trials…
Evolving from a spectrum of sources in art history, photographs, memory, newspaper cuttings and books, Quinn’s canvases introduce new and universal topics…
Asleep by the Light of Glow-Worms
