Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn was born in London in 1964. He is a leading figure of the Young British Artists generation of the late 1980s, alongside fellow trailblazers Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. A “post-human” and anti-classical artist, Quinn has broken down and redefined the relationship between culture and nature with an eclecticism of expressive instruments and great formal rigour. Reaching bloody and provocative extremes without ever pursuing sensationalism, Quinn has stuck to his own original way of representing the contemporary man, from self-portraits made with his own frozen blood to the twisted yoga pose of androgynous beauty Kate Moss and marble sculptures of amputees that break with the ancient world concept of ideal beauty. Marc Quinn presents his vision of humanity with equal intensity in large-scale installations as well as the detail of a sensual blooming flower or a portrait created with bacteria containing the subject’s DNA.
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