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| The Goss-Michael Foundation presents influential British contemporary artists: Marc Quinn. |
| Once you enter the Goss Michael Foundation, you sense that this is no ordinary exhibit. The collaboration with noted Dallas collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky brings to Dallas influential British Artist Marc Quinn. |
| Marc Quinn Sky 2006 Human placenta and umbilical cord, stainless steel, perspex and refrigeration equipment |
| The GMF and The Rachofsky Collection bring together a strong array of Quinn’s works dated from 1998 to present. Utilizing both traditional mediums such as bronze and marble, in addition to more innovative materials such as ice, blood, insulin and DNA, Quinn breaks the boundaries of historical sculpture-making. The works included in the exhibition comment on the modern preoccupation of eternal preservation of the self and explore Quinn’s obsession with the unpredictability of the human body and the dualisms that define human life, such as: spiritual and physical, surface and depth, cerebral and sexual. |
| Marc Quinn Nicholas Grogan – Insulin (Diabetes) 2005 Polymer wax and drugs 14 x 74 7/16 x 33 1/16 in. (35.5 x 189 x 84 cm) © the artist Photo: Stephen White Courtesy White Cube |
| The Rachofsky Collection has contributed Marc Quinn’s signature piece, Self II (1998), which has become famously known as The Blood Head. This frozen sculpture of the artist’s head is made from ten pints of his own blood, taken from his body over a five month period. Juxtaposed in the space is the Goss-Michael Collection’s, Sky (2006), a frozen representation of Quinn’s child created from the birth placenta and umbilical cord. |
| Emotional Detox : The Seven Deadly Sins VI 1994‐1995 Edition of 2 Cast lead and wax 33 7/8 x 21 2/3 x 15 3/4 in. (86 x 55 x 40 cm) © the artist Courtesy White Cube |
Amongst several sculptural works in
the exhibition is another of Quinn’s
most important pieces: Alison
Lapper and Parys (2009), a 7ft
high marble sculpture of Quinn’s
dear friend Alison Lapper. Born
with no arms and shortened legs,
she is powerfully depicted sitting
with her son Parys. Again, Quinn
challenges traditional parameters
and social standards for
immortalizing beauty in white
marble, elevating instead on a tall
plinth an unconventional sitter. A
version of this sculpture was on
prominent display on the fourth
plinth in Trafalgar Square in front of
the National Gallery (London,
2005).
the exhibition is another of Quinn’s
most important pieces: Alison
Lapper and Parys (2009), a 7ft
high marble sculpture of Quinn’s
dear friend Alison Lapper. Born
with no arms and shortened legs,
she is powerfully depicted sitting
with her son Parys. Again, Quinn
challenges traditional parameters
and social standards for
immortalizing beauty in white
marble, elevating instead on a tall
plinth an unconventional sitter. A
version of this sculpture was on
prominent display on the fourth
plinth in Trafalgar Square in front of
the National Gallery (London,
2005).
| The Goss-Michael Foundation Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10:00am-6:00pm, Saturday 11:00am-4:00pm, Monday by appointment only. www.gossmichaelfoundation.org |
| visit us: Village on the Green Center 5301 Alpha Road# 10 Dallas, TX 75240 972.503.1500 |
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