2009 ONLINE CATALOG

20th Century         Contemporary 

BACON                

BRAQUE               PETER DOIG

CHAGALL              DAMIEN HIRST     

DUBUFFET            GARY HUME

MATISSE              ANISH KAPOOR

MIRO                   GRAYSON PERRY

PICASSO              GAVIN TURK

Marc Quinn has gained worldwide recognition as an artist obsessed with the apparent preservation of life without the loss of youth, vitality and beauty.  Included in many important museum and private collections, his work challenges the passage of time, the inevitability of death and the exquisite beauty found in the cycles of nature.  He has shocked the world with such pieces as a sculpture of his head cast in his own blood and works made from liquid latex forms resembling flayed skin.  His more recent work includes marble sculptures of disabled people done in a classic, heroic style and stunning arrangements of cut flowers preserved indefinitely in giant tanks of frozen silicone; monuments of unblemished death, frozen forever in the exact moment between life and death.  Vividly intense, surreal landscapes that attempt to preserve the fragile and unexpected beauty of a flower garden in its prime, forever. 

This summer Galerie Maximillian is presenting Quinn’s newest project, LANDSCAPES, a collection of 8 pigment prints from photorealistic paintings.  These incredible images symbolically overcome our human limitations of decay and death.  They are a snapshot of an unnatural landscape, an excessive fabrication which attempts to transform the mundane and finite nature of life into something hyper-realistic and never-ending.  The composition of exotic and domestic plants is both stunning and sickly in its excess.  Quinn has worked hard to expose the artificiality and the sheer labor intensity of man attempting to outdo nature.  Forever perfect in their manufactured state, these electric landscapes are a preternatural reality.  Hyper-realistic rather than real.  These pieces are about our own decadence and consumptive nature, gestureing at our philosophical search for soul.

Biography

1964     Born, London

1985     Graduated, Cambridge University

Currently lives and works in London

Solo Exhibitions

2004     The Complete Marbles,  Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2003     The Overwhelming World of Desire (Phragmipedium Sedenii), Peggy Guggenheim           Collection, Venice

            Mirror, A Delta Axis Initiative, Power House, Memphis

            The Overwhelming World of Desire (Paphiopedilum Winston Churchill Hybrid),     Goodwood Sculpture Park, West Sussex

2002     Marc Quinn, Galeria Senda, Barcelona

            Portrait of John Sulston, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle

            1 + 1 = 3 (Rainbow Sculpture), Cammell Laird Ship Yard, Liverpool

            Marc Quinn, Tate Liverpool

            Italian Landscapes from Garden 2000, Terrace Gallery Harewood, Leeds

2001     A Genomic Portrait, John Sulston by Marc Quinn, National Portrait Gallery, London

            Marc Quinn. Garden2, Art of this Century, Paris

            Italian Landscape, Habitat, London

2000     Still Life, White Cube2, London

            Marc Quinn, Groninger Museum, The Netherlands

            Marc Quinn, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

1999     Marc Quinn, Kunstverein, Hannover

            Marc Quinn. Drawings, Sala Amárica-Amarica Aretoa, Victoria, Spain

1998     Incarnate, Gagosian Gallery, New York

            Marc Quinn, South London Gallery, London

1997     Infra-slim Spaces, Invisible Museum, SCCA, Kiev

1995     Art Now, Emotional Detox: The Seven Deadly Sins, Tate Gallery, London

            The Blind Leading the Blind, Jay Jopling/Whitecube, London

1994     Marc Quinn, Jay Jopling/Art Hoel, Amsterdam

1993     Marc Quinn, Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens

1991     Out of Time, Jay Jopling/Grob Gallery, London

1990     Bread Sculpture, Galerie Marquardt, Paris

            Bread Sculpture, Middendorf Gallery, Washington

1988     Bronze Sculpture, Jay Jopling/Otis Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions

2004     The Garden of Delights, Galeria Guereta, Madrid

            Garden of Eden, Helsinki City Art Museum Meilagti, Helsinki

            The Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London

            Secrets of the 90’s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem

            Flowers, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

            Ideale e Realta, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna

2003     Fourth Plinth Proposal, National Gallery, London

            FRESH: Contemporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh

            Statements 7, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice

            Decembristerne, Gallery Faurschou, Denmark

            Independence, South London Gallery, London

            Genomic Issues, Graduate Centre Art Gallery, New York

            Bull’s Eye; Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Arken Museum of Modern Art

            UnNaturally, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa

2002     Thinking Big: Concepts for 21st Century British Sculpture, Peggy Guggenheim Collection,                                     Venice

            The Nude in 20th Century Art, Kunsthalle in Emden

            Face Off, Kettle’s Yard touring Exhibition, Cambridge

            Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Barbican Gallery, London

            Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

            The Rowan Collection. Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum on Modern Art,                               Dublin

            In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London

            Iconoclast. Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

            Second Skin. Historical Life Casting and Contemporary Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute,                                     Leeds

2001     Sacred and Profane, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield

            Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2. Without Hesitation, Gesellscharft fûr Aktuelle Kunst &                                Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen

            Metamorphosis and Cloning, Musée d’art Contemporaine de Montréal, Quebec, Canada

            Summer Exhibition 2001, Royal Academy of Arts, London

            /Arts, The Lux, London

            London Nomad, Cairo Biennale

            Mind the Gap, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm

            Give & Take, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

            Heads and Hands, Decatur House Museum, Washington

            Printers Inc., The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon, England

2000     Welcome Wing, The Science Museum, London

            Conversation, Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Milton Keynes

            Spectacular Bodies:  The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now,                             Hayward Gallery, London

            Out There, White Cube2, Hoxton, London

            Psycho, Anne Faggionato, London

1999     Skin, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens

            Something Warm and Fuzzy, DeMoines Art Centre

            Into the Light. Photographic Printing Out of the Darkroom, The Royal Photographic                                 Society, Bath

            Officina Europa, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologona, Bologna

            Now It’s My Turn to Scream.  Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan
                        Collection, Haines Gallery, San Francisco

            Presence, Tate Gallery, Liverpool

            As Above, So Below:  The Body’s Equal Parts, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia

            Spaced Out: Late 1990’s Works from Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, The CCA Institute,                         California

            Physical Evidence, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

1998     A Portrait of Our Times:  An Introduction to the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum                        of Modern Art, San Francisco

            UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz, Brengenz, Austria

            Group Exhibition, Galleri Faurschou, Kobenhavn

            Hope (Sufferance), Sun and Doves Gallery, London

            The Colony Room 50th Anniversity Art Exhibition, A22 Projects, London

            Sam Taylor-Wood, Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing, Marc Quinn, Galerija Dante Marino                                 Cettina, Croatia

            Inner Self, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

1997     The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy, Royal College of Art, London; Mead                                 Gallery, University of Warwick; City Art Gallery, Leeds

            Follow Me, Kunstverein Kehdingen, Freiburg

            Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

            The Body, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia

            A Ilha do Tesouro, Fundaçao Colouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

1996     Thinking Print. Books to Billboards 1980-95, Museum of Modern Art, New York

            Hybrid, De Appel, Amsterdam

            Feed and Greed, MAK, Vienna

            Works on Paper, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

            Happy End, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf

1995     Time Machine, Musee Egizio, Turin

            Faith, Hope, Charity,  Kunsthalle, Vienna

            Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh

            Ripple Across the Water, Minato Prefecture and Shibuya Prefecture, Tokyo

1994     Life is Too Much, Galerie des Archives, Paris

            Time Machine, British Museum, London

1993     Young British Artists II, Saatchi Collection, London

            Prospect ’93, Frankfurt

            Sonsbeek ’93, Arnhem

            Art Cologne, (Saatchi Collection), Cologne

            Real, Vienna Secession, Vienna

            Resturant, Marc Jancou, Paris

1992     London Portfolio, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London

            Strange Developments, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London

            British Art, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

            Sydney Biennial, Sydney

1991     Modern Masters, Grob Gallery, London

1990     Group Show, Grob Gallery, London

            Hands, Grob Gallery, London

Awards

Fourth Plinth Commission for Trafalger Square, London, 2004

The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award, 2001

Public Collections

Arts Council Collection, London

Astrup Fearnley Moderne Kunst, Oslo

British Museum, London

Caldic Collection, Netherlands

Deutsche Bank, London

Denver Art Museum

Germentes Museum (Arnhem)

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Kroller Muller Museum, Netherlands

National Portrait Gallery, London

Marx Collection, Germany

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Pompidou Centre, Paris

Saatchi Collection, London

Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Science Museum, London

Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam