Marc Quinn
I may be late to discover this, but it’s pretty amazing and I thought I would share for first time viewers like myself.
Marc Quinn is a British sculpture artist, most famous for his own sculpted portrait titled Self (1991). Self is ”a frozen sculpture of the artist’s head made from 4.5 litres (9.5 US pints) of his own blood, taken from his body over a period of 5 months.” It is kept and displayed in a refrigerated case and was sold to a US collector in 2005 for £1.5m.
“Quinn has also made a series of marble sculptures of people either born with limbs missing or who have had them amputated. This culminated in the 15 ton marble statue of Alison Lapper, a woman who was born with no arms and severely shortened legs”
The statue was on display in Trafalgar Square in London, but has since been moved.
Here is his personal site, for the ever curious: www.marcquinn.com
I’d be lying if I didn’t say this is supremely spooky.
But … some part of me is intrigued by it. I suppose that’s what art is intended for, right?
I love this artist. But I think the picture of Self that you have is the 2001 one, and not the 1991. (This is the one he made in 1991 http://arliquido.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/marc quinn self 1990.jpg)