Marc Quinn: All of Nature Flows Through Us
Solo Exhibition
21 January 2012 – 29 April 2012
Kunsten - Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
This is Marcs first solo show in Denmark. 'All of Nature Flows Through Us' presents large-scale sculptures and paintings from the period 2000 to 2011. In this show Marcs uses a startling array of materials, ranging from the traditional (such as marble and bronze) to the untraditional (for example, blood and fire). He regards art as a concrete philosophy and his motif world explores the major issues of life and death, gender and transformation, identity, and the icons of our contemporary world.
'Blizzard of Desire' at Selfridges Concept Store /Windows
Solo Exhibition
27 October 2011 – 24 December 2011
Selfridges, London
Marc Quinn has designed and installed four window displays at top London shop Selfridges. This is to coincide with the launch of the Marc Quinn collection of t-shirts, silk scarves and temporary tattoo's - with designs exclusive to Selfridges up until christmas! Also in store are exclusive limited edition prints, bronzes and jewellery. (on floor G, The Wonder Room, Selfridges, 400 Oxford St, London. Some products also available online at www.selfridges.com). Images copyright of Andrew Meredith, 2011 (www.meredithphoto.com)
Beyond Limits, Sotheby's at Chatsworth
Group Exhibition
16 September 2011 – 30 October 2011
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Sotheby's annual selling exhibition of monumental sculpture returns to Chatsworth for its sixth installment in 2011, with an extraordinary line up of artists, many of whom have never been shown at this magnificent location in the Peak District before.Marc Quinn has a new sculpture on display 'Burning Desire', a four meter high blood red orchid.Image Reproduced by permission of Sotheby's
Penelopes Labour - Weaving Words and Images
Group Exhibition
31 May 2011 – 15 September 2011
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
Weavings from the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Collection shown alongside new woven works by Marc Quinn and also Azra Aksamija, Lara Baladi, Alighiero Boetti, Maurizio Cattelan, Manuel Franquelo, Carlos Garaicoa, Craigie Horsfield and Grayson Perry. Exhibition by Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Factum Arte
Marc Quinn: All of Nature Flows Through Us
Solo Exhibition
22 May 2011 – 09 October 2011
Kistefos-Museet, Norway
The Kistefos Museum is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia of the work of British artist Marc Quinn. ‘All of Nature Flows Through Us’ reflects the artist’s further investigation into themes of inner nature and spirituality. It will also showcase new sculptures and paintings by the artist alongside previous works.
Planet (Microcosmos)
Solo Exhibition
27 November 2009 – 16 January 2010
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
PLANET (MICROCOSMOS) is a sculpture made of Sterling Silver, which depicts the artist's seven months old son. The sculpture of the baby, which seems to float in space, is based on PLANET, a sculpture of the same baby in gigantic dimensions: 10 meters long and more than 7 tons was the work, which Quinn exhibited in the sculpture park of Chatsworth House last year. The edition now shows the other extreme. With its small size (6 cm) the work emphasises the preciousness and the fragility of the sculpture, the baby, life and the planet.
Mary Boone 'Iris' Oct 2009
Solo Exhibition
30 October 2009 – 19 December 2009
Mary Boone Gallery
An exhibition of new paintings by Marc Quinn. These round canvases each depict in gigantic scale the iris of a human eye – turbulently streaked and spotted, suffused with bright colors, and highly individual. Although photo-realistic, the disembodied images might equally serve as renditions of whirling interstellar space.
The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
Solo Exhibition
24 September 2009 – 23 January 2010
The GMF has partnered with The Rachofsky Collection, one of the world’s foremost private collections, to produce an exceptional survey of Marc Quinn’s sculptural works throughout the last decade. The exhibition brings together a strong array of Quinn’s works dated from 1998 to present.
Selfs
Solo Exhibition
08 July 2009 – 19 July 2009
Beyeler Foundation
For the first time all of Marc Quinn's ‘blood head’ self portraits will be exhibited together. Each portrait is a documentation of the artist’s head, as it ages every five years, and so represents a portrait of the artist over a fifteen year period
Materialise Dematerialise
Solo Exhibition
29 May 2009 – 11 July 2009
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
This exhibit will show a substantial body of new works that are shown publicly for the first time. What unites the works in the exhibition is that they all deal with notions of abstractions, in a sense that they contest established conceptions of differences between the virtual and the real.
Carbon Cycles
Solo Exhibition
29 May 2009 – 31 July 2009
Galerie Daniel Blau
A presention of the series of unique bronze sculptures, the 'Carbon Cycles'. The subjects of the series are self-portrait casts and skulls surrounded with various fruits and blossoms.
Myth
Solo Exhibition
23 May 2009 – 27 September 2009
Juliet's House
Marc Quinn will present in Verona a comprehensive selection of works in an exhibition that will give the city a prestigious international importance. In the mythological home of Juliet his famous works will be displayed alongside a number of unpublished works
Before, Now and After
Solo Exhibition
27 October 2008 – 29 November 2008
Galerie Hopkins-Custot
Beyond Limits, Sotheby's at Chatsworth
Group Exhibition
09 September 2008 – 02 November 2008
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Beyond Limits, an exhibition of sculpture in the gardens of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, brings together the work of 20 modern artists including Marc Quinn and Salvador Dali. The annual exhibition is organised in association with Sotheby's, the works are for sale.
Marc Quinn, Gana
Solo Exhibition
11 July 2008 – 03 August 2008
Gana Art Center
This exhibition will represent total 20 works including new paintings and bronze sculptures. The large-scale sculptures using different materials and powerfully coloured paintings of hyper-realistic manner insist dualism between visuality and materiality.
Evolution
Solo Exhibition
25 January 2008 – 23 February 2008
The White Cube
White Cube Mason’s Yard was pleased to present ‘Evolution’, a major new installation featuring a series of nine monumental sculptures, in fleshy pink marble, that represent the growth of the human embryo and foetus during its gestation.
Sphinx
Solo Exhibition
03 May 2007 – 30 June 2007
Mary Boone Gallery
''In a world without Gods and Goddesses, celebrity has replaced divinity. Do we create images or do images form us? What is interesting to me about Kate Moss is that she is someone whose image has completely separated from her real self and this image has a life of its own. Our problem is: How do we measure ourselves against the impossible infinite virtual world of perfect images? Yoga, the gym, tattooing, are all ways in which we try to anchor ourselves into our bodies or live up to these images in reaction to the virtual disembodied lives we now currently lead. These hollow bronze sculptures, de-materialized by white paint, are like egg- shells or cinema screens to me, sites for the projection of our desire, twisted mirrors to ourselves.''Marc Quinn New York, May 2007.
Paintings
Solo Exhibition
26 October 2006 – 01 December 2006
Project B
Marc Quinns work exploits a variety of techniques and media to reflect on the nature of humanity, life and death.
Chemical Life Support
Solo Exhibition
21 January 2006 – 26 March 2006
Millesgarden
Quinn presented a body of work that explores our distanced relationship with our physical selves through the culturally constructed notion of the 'natural' and its hold on the contemporary psyche. Chemical Life Support included several compelling figurative sculptures of people who keep chronic illness at bay with drugs.
Chemical Life Support
Solo Exhibition
04 March 2005 – 09 April 2005
The White Cube
Quinn presented a body of work that explores our distanced relationship with our physical selves through the culturally constructed notion of the 'natural' and its hold on the contemporary psyche. Chemical Life Support included several compelling figurative sculptures of people who keep chronic illness at bay with drugs.
Flesh : Meat Sculptures
Solo Exhibition
08 January 2005 – 26 February 2005
Mary Boone Gallery
Marc Quinn: Flesh presents 14 new sculptures cast, in this instance, from the meat of various animals. Despite this new medium, Quinn's recurring themes - of life and death, heroism and suffering and man's physical and psychological boundaries - persist to powerful effect.
Flesh
Solo Exhibition
01 July 2004 – 26 September 2004
Irish Museum of Modern Art
The exhibition presents 14 new sculptures cast, in this instance, from the meat of various animals. Despite this new medium, Quinn's recurring themes - of life and death, heroism and suffering and man's physical and psychological boundaries - persist to powerful effect.
1 + 1 = 3 (Rainbow Sculpture), Liverpool Biennial 2002
Solo Exhibition
14 September 2002 – 24 November 2002
Camell Laird Shipyard, Liverpool
Marc Quinn's use of the awesome Camell Laird Shipyard across the Mersey in Birkenhead as a site for his latest work, seems typical of the Biennial's regeneration of urban spaces through art and culture.His projection of light through a fine spray of water creates a subtle rainbow between the huge walls of this cathedral-like warehouse, closed down just one year ago.
Marc Quinn: Tate Liverpool
Solo Exhibition
01 February 2002 – 28 April 2002
Tate Liverpool
Marc Quinn first gained recognition in 1991 for his sculpture Self, a life-size cast of his head made from his own frozen blood. His work takes a wide range of forms including painting, drawing, photography and installation. Exploring issues around the human body, mortality, beauty, science and time, he often uses his own body to understand 'what it means to materially exist in the world'. Over the last few years he has delved deeper into enigmas of the human condition, questioning ideas of representation by using materials as traditional as marble to focus our attention on the bodies of others, and investigating the essence of life through the use of DNA and blood.This exhibition brings together recent and new work, presented alongside drawings and photographs from the last ten years. Although he has become more ambitious in his use of technology – in Garden 2000 for example – Quinn continues to reference traditional art historical genres such as portraiture, landscape and still life.Images copyright of Roger Sineck, Tate Liverpool 2002
A Genomic Portrait. John Sulston by Marc Quinn
Solo Exhibition
19 September 2001 – 10 February 2002
National Portrait Gallery
A Genomic Portrait: Sir John Sulston by Marc Quinn is the result of a remarkable collaboration between the artist and the sitter, scientist Sir John Sulston in which Sulston contributed a sample of his DNA to be used by Quinn in the work. The portrait is the first entirely conceptual portrait to be acquired by the Gallery and was commissioned with the support of The Wellcome Trust.
Marc Quinn: Fondazione Prada
Solo Exhibition
05 May 2000 – 10 June 2000
Fondazione Prada, Milan
The exhibition is the first one-man show dedicated to Marc Quinn in Italy. Conceived by the artist the exhibition spaces of the Fondazione Prada, consists of three works which are here being shown for the first time ever: the sculpture Continuous Present, 2000, the sculptural group Peter Hull, Selma Mustajbasic, Jamie Gillespie, Alexandra Wetsmoquette, Tom Yendel, Catherine Long, Stuart Penn, Helen Smith: Group Portrait, 1999-2000, and the installation Garden, 2000.
Incarnate
Solo Exhibition
30 May 1998 – 04 July 1998
Gagosian Gallery
Incarnate displays Quinn continuing fascination with the exploration of the self, and his talent for creating complex dialogues between material, medium and subject. Incarnate is a beguiling statement of the ideas and preoccupations that have inspired Quinns work to date (1998)
Marc Quinn (South London Gallery)
Solo Exhibition
28 January 1998 – 08 March 1998
South London Gallery
Marc Quinn’s solo exhibition at the South London Gallery will be his first in the UK since his Artnow exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1995. It is the first ever comprehensive display of his sculptural pieces. The freezing of the fluid moment will be an important theme at the South London Gallery show. The centrepiece of the exhibition will be a life-size cast of the artist in ice, called Across the Universe. Enclosed in a glass container, rather than melting this sculpture will gradually evaporate. Nothing will remain.
The Blind Leading the Blind (The White Cube)
Solo Exhibition
07 July 1995 – 09 July 1995
The White Cube
Marc Quinn exhibited Blind Leading the Blind (1995), a life-size three-quarter cast of his own body. This sculpture is one of a series of pieces based on the seven deadly sins, entitled ‘Emotional Detox’, in which contorted torsos represent heightened states of both physical and emotional expression.
Emotional Detox: The Seven Deadly Sins. Art Now (Tate)
Solo Exhibition
04 July 1995 – 20 August 1995
Tate Britain
These sculptures are inspired by a traditional iconography – the seven deadly sins: anger, avarice, envy, gluttony, lust, pride and sloth. They are not, however, direct representations of those vices. Instead, the busts convey the impact of a body grappling with conflicting responses and venting powerful emotions.
