Video: Planet is a giant baby in Singapore. Installation by Marc Quinn
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Any parent selflessly loves his child, tries to protect and cherish him in every possible way, and at every opportunity he shows the child's photos to friends. Here comes the British painter and sculptor Marc Quinn reached in his love to such an extent that he glorified his little son to the whole world through a giant Planet installationsestablished in Singapore.
It turns out that not only the Dutchman Florentijn Hofman suffers from gigantism in this world, creating huge sculptures depicting ordinary things with dimensions many times larger than their real ones. Other sculptors working in the same direction include Briton Mark Quinn, whose work Planet now adorns Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
In the sculpture Planet, Mark Quinn portrayed his little son, but he only increased his height to ten meters, and his weight to seven tons.
This work is located on a green lawn on the outskirts of Gardens by the Bay, it is on barely visible props, so that from the side it seems like this child is hanging in the air against the backdrop of the surrounding skyscrapers and metal trees of the aforementioned Singapore park.
With his work Planet, Mark Quinn wanted to show the world the life story of his son, who was born seven months before its creation. The sculptor showed the child in all its beauty and naturalness. Moreover, he put a lot of personal experiences and facts into this sculpture. For example, he added to the polymer clay from which this giant figure is made, a special synthetic milk mixture used in his family because of the child's allergy to cow's milk.
According to Mark Quinn himself, through this sculpture he wanted to show not only his child, but also hundreds of millions of other children on the planet, the attitude of parents towards their babies. And in Singapore, this sculpture symbolizes the birth of a new world, a new history of this city-state. After all, Gardens by the Bay Park is part of this Singapore of the future, and one of the most notable and famous!
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