Marc Quinn

The Giorgio Cini Foundation announces a new major exhibition opens to the public on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore May 29, 2013: Marc Quinn, major solo exhibition curated by Germano Celant and produced in collaboration with the artist, which will see a selection of more than 50 works - including sculptures, paintings, drawings and other art objects - by Marc Quinn, one of the most well-known representatives of the generation of Young British Artists.

With more than 50 works, including 13 never before exhibited, the exhibition titled Marc Quinn will be among the most important ever devoted to the artist. In addition to celebrating the renewal of the collaboration between Quinn and Celant (which dates from exposure Gardenorganizzata Fondazione Prada in Milan in 2000), Marc Quinn marks the return to Venice after the English artist The Overwhelming World of Desire the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in 2003 and reaffirms the growing interest in the Giorgio Cini Foundation for Contemporary Art.

The intent of Marc Quinn - that always implements an in-depth investigation on some particular themes, such as the relationship between art and science, the human body and its mechanisms of survival, life and its preservation, beauty and death - l ' retrospective at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, which will open to the public May 29, 2013 is a "journey from the origins of life" and celebrates, through original works, "the fear and wonder about the world in which we live."

You can admire, in a spectacular new and unique setting created specifically for the Island of San Giorgio, the cycle Evolution (2005): series of ten monumental marble blocks depicting fetuses of various sizes, which tracks the mystery of extraterrestrial life as a gift that emerges from the lagoon. A tribute to nature, which sees art as an intrinsic component and mysterious, are the seven colossal shells of the series The Archaeology of Art: these perfect symmetrical shapes are in fact made up of tiny mindless creatures that seem to follow an order apparently larger than them. Finally you will see the great work of Alison Lapper Pregnant (2005), installed in September 2005 on the basis of the center of Trafalgar Square. The work, which was the centerpiece of the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games to celebrate the triumph over adversity of life force, proposes "a new model of female heroism" in which love, motherhood, vitality reach a form unpredictable and unexpected peak .

The conceptual work of Marc Quinn is accomplished through sculpture, painting, installation and video. The strong artist's interest in the ability of metamorphosis of both nature and human life leads him towards an attraction for the innate spirituality of man. Quinn calls into question the codes of nature through the use of materials that do not accept compromises, such as ice, blood, marble, glass and lead. Through the use of these materials Quinn's works explore life, death, sexuality and religion in a poetic and provocative at the same time. Quinn turns the simple act of observing, forcing the viewer to question what surrounds him, pushing him into the unknown, to encourage the rediscovery.

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