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Artist: Marc Quinn (born 1964)
Location: Graves Art Gallery
Date: 2001
Materials: carrara marble
Dimensions: 184 x 64 x 64cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £62,750 (Total: £93,750)
Vendor: White Cube
Review number: 5445 (2004)
Provenance:
White Cube.
Description:
The artist establishes a close relationship with his sitters, in this case Matt Fraser and Catherine Long which lends the work a penetrating perceptiveness. Quinn was inspired by classical sculptures in the British Museum, contemplating the differences between the reactions people have to a sculpture without limbs and seeing a person missing an arm or a leg. Quinn's use of this almost luminous superwhite marble highlights his subversion of the heroic and the beautiful even further.
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