Bronze
27,2 x 8,2 x 9 in (69 x 21 x 23 cm)

Marc Quinn : An artist interpreting art in awe-inspiring.

Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a British art and part of the group known as Brit-artists or YBAs (YOUNG BRITISH ARTISTS). He is known for his art Alison Lapper Pregnant (a sculpture of ALISON LAPPER which has been installed on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square), Self (a sculpture of his head made with his own frozen blood), and Garden (2000).

He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) and is known for his innovative use of materials to make art, including blood, ice, feces, etc, his use of bringing scientific developments into art, and his designs for "discussion-generating" artworks.

The artist oeuvre displays a preoccupation with the mutability of the body and the dualisms that define human life: spiritual and physical, surface and depth, cerebral and sexual. Using an uncompromising array of materials, from ice and blood to glass, marble or lead, the artist develops these paradoxes into experimental, conceptual works that are mostly figurative in form.

Quinn’s sculpture, art, paintings and drawings often deal with the distanced relationship we have with our bodies, highlighting how the conflict between the ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’ has a grip on the contemporary psyche through art.