Marc Quinn

Artist’s website

Sammlung ESSL

Works in the Tate collection

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…