Marc Quinn

Quinn, Marc





Marc Quinn was born 1964 BirthLondon, England.

Categories: BritArt Installation art Sculpture Objects

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Marc Quinn’s studio is filled with white light. Spotlights and a large skylight reflect off the white sculptural bodies on white plinths that fill the white-walled room. Yet this seemingly perfect space is not sterile, it’s a blank slate in three dimensions…
Marc Quinn came to the attention of the international public with "Self", a work in which the artist’s head was cast in his own frozen, congealed blood. This and other work using human bodily fluids are key to the artist’s central preoccupation: the exploration of self and issues of mortality…

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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new...

South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success...


James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art.
“Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon







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