Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn

February 13th –
April 4th, 2010
Gstaad
  • Marc Quinn
    Nurseries of Antarctic,2009
    Painted bronze
    97 x 29 x 62 cm
  • Marc Quinn
    Untitled,2009
    Glass beaded and lacquered bronze
    92 x 39.5 x 35.5 cm
  • Marc Quinn
    Microcosmos-Fortuna,2008
    Painted bronze
    30 x 24 x 27 cm
  • Marc Quinn
    Spring Thaw,2007
    Watercolour and pencil on paper
    153.5 x 102 cm
  • Marc Quinn
    We share our chemistry with the stars,2009
    Oil on canvas
    200 x 200 cm
  • Marc Quinn
    Untitled (Kate drawing),2007
    Watercolour and pencil on paper
    155 x 102 cm
  • Marc Quinn
    Hippopotami in the Thames,2008
    Oil on canvas
    168.5 x 258 cm
  • Marc Quinn
    Polar bears in the Tiber,2009
    Oil on canvas
    168.5 x270 cm
  • Marc Quinn
    The meeting of Tigris and Euphrates,2009
    Oil on canvas
    168.5 x 254.5 cm

Following his pivotal 2000 sculpture, Garden, a 7 meter tank filled with 1000 flowers unnaturally presevered in frozen silicone, Quinn’s latest paintings enchant with glaciated perfection. Set against backdrops of crystallised ice, blossoms of the most exotic and alluring varieties unfold with almost lewd sensual relish, simultaneously virginal and tainted. Taking representational purity to ostentatious extremes, Quinn’s pristine floras proffer immaculate obscenity, their hyper-real image and simulated hues expounding virtual toxicity. Quinn’s paintings set the stage for baroque reverie, merging carnal desire with divine transcendence, forging a contemporary spiritualism of media, celebrity, and fashion.

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His recent Kate Moss sculptures pose super-model as yogi-Buddha, emaciated, contorted, and deformed; a waif goddess bestowing the blessings of vacuous malnourished serenity, tranquillity in angelic grotesquery. Coupled with larger sculptures, a cherub and floral still-life exquisitely executed in bronze, his works become infused with classicism’s timeless authority: the fragility of nature and youth made eternal, immortal, undead.

Quinn’s practice poignantly articulates the liminal spaces between life and death, the physical and metaphysical, supreme beauty and silent unnameable horror. Through the meticulous presentation, materiality, and detail of his works, the pinnacles of artistry become conveyors of vanitas, bridging the gulf between unattainable desire and longing and its luxurious, bitter sweet sublimation.

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