| the fondazione prada presents marc quinn : the first one-man show of the young british artist in italy........................................................................... | |||
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marc quinn at the milanese gallery fondazione prada |
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| - may 2000 - the installation is devided in three parts, conceptually linked: - continuous present -, 2000 seems to be time-line of life, a sort of 'homage to holbein', impressed by dutch art of the seventeenth century and it's scientific way of representing nature and the human figure. - disabled people have been portrayed in an ironic (canova-classical) way in marble: - peter hull -, - helen smith - and 8 other figures, 1999 - 2000 with name and surname, symbolizing the transcending of a loss. - garden -, 2000 a sort of 'hortus conclusus' : those who visited the installation found themselves, thanks to mirrors, in a garden of infinite beauty and immortality. an enviroment created by plants from various continents -asia, africa-europe- and from different seasons, beauty that doesn’t decay. a perfect image beyond botany itself. these flowers will last forever, but obviously they are dead. the installation in a 3,20 m x 12,70 m x 5,43 m stainless steel refrigerator (-20°C) is technically made of flowers frozen in a silicon oil. (which stays liquid to - 80°C and doesn’t chemically react with the flowers) "it's like the last judgement of the vegetable world" he said in an interview with germano celant "and a kind of romanticism in trying to stop time". from the catalogue marc quinn - gc: "prolonging the lives of plants recalls the psychology of the phantom limb that accompanies the lives of those who have lost it. is the eternity of nature a phantom process for you?" mq: "like a phantom limb, a hallucination that represents something that's been lost; just as, in a way, all portraits and representations are. marble portraits are immortal, models are mortal. the interesting thing in the case of plants is that they're both of these things at once. the dead plant is an immortal image." born in london, 1964, marc quinn graduated from cambridge university with a degree in history and art history in 1985. he began his career as a sculptor in 1984 in london, where he lives and works. he is one of the most interesting exponents of "young british art" a movement of particular vitality in the contemporary art scene of the last decade. the artists in this group (about forty in all, including quinn) all have in common a radical and transgressive spirit, a sinister 'poetry of experience' . exhibitions he has taken part in: in 1992, the sidney biennial and in "british art" at the barbara gladstone gallery, new york. in 1993, "young british artists II" at the saatchi gallery, london. and in 1997,"sensation" at the royal academy of arts, london. several one-man shows have been held since 1988, among them: 1991 he presented - self - (a cast-sculpture of his own head, filled with 16 lt. blood) at the jay jopling/grob gallery, 1995 tate gallery and jay jopling/white cube gallery, london. 1998 gagosian gallery, new york and south london gallery, london. 1999 at the kunstverein hannover. see more works: 1989 - "marie antoinette" 1995 - "leading the blind" 1996 - "24 hours" 1996 - "the genesis of morphology" 1996 - "no visible means of escape VI" 1997 - "heliotroo morohology" 1998 - "beached" in december 1998 christies sold "you take my breath away" (1992) for ¤ 30.000 (a sculpture that evaporate, governed by a physical law. the molecules of the sculpture are breathed in by the viewer) the exhibition conceived by quinn in the fondazione prada was his first italian one-man show (05.05.-10.06.2000). periodicals sophie hughes, marc quinn, artforum, may 1998 new york, ny. will self, head case, details magazine, may 1998 new york, ny. louisa buck,quinn chills out, the art newspaper, n.78, febbruary 1998, london. catalogue available online: marc quinn, published by fondazione prada, milan preface by miuccia prada, texts by germano celant, darian leader and marc quinn, graphic project by pierluigi cerri, dario zannier italian and english edition ---www.fondazioneprada.org related links www.whitecube.com www.gagosian.com www.tate.org.uk --- |
 marc quinn: garden, 2000 courtesy by fondazione prada |
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