Video: Flesh from flesh, blood from blood. "Bloody" sculptures by Mark Quinn
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is becoming more and more obvious that connoisseurs of contemporary art are no longer just to admire the beauty and grace of works of art - they are more and more thirsty for bread and circuses. Shocking, resonance, strong emotions that will take your breath away. Therefore, it is not surprising that contemporary authors are striving with all their might to get into the "stream", creating creative works one stranger than the other. There are a great many such works in the portfolio of the famous English sculptor Marc Quinn … Among them, the most famous are self-portraits from the series Self, which in the literal sense of the word can be called "flesh of flesh and blood of blood" of the author. Project Self is a sculpture depicting the head of Mark Quinn, an unusual self-portrait, which is interesting not so much for its technique as for the material chosen by the author for the work. Five liters of his own blood, collected over six months and frozen in a special tank, was needed by the sculptor to make his image. There are four such sculptures in the Self series: the first is dated 1991, from which the project traces its history, followed by the heads created in 1996, 2001 and 2006.
The sculptor creates self-portraits from his own blood regularly, collecting "material" for a new statue every five years. He also created the head of his son, however, as a material he used not blood, but frozen placenta, previously dissolved in liquid. By the way, Mark Quinn is not the only one whose work is stained with blood. American artist Jordan Eagles paints paintings from real blood, however, he uses animal blood, not his own.
The shocking, strange, slightly crazy sculptor Mark Quinn is compared to the no less extraordinary sculptor Damien Hirst. Both of them have something to surprise and shock people, constantly keeping them on their toes. You can see with your own eyes the unusual works of the British author on his website.
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