So yes, these are some works by Marc Quinn, an artist I really admire. I prefer his other works over the stone scuptures cause they have much more meaning behind them. heh.
Self, 1991.
I think I've told some people about this one. Its a frozen sculpture made from his own blood, and is really dependent on the refrigerator because it'd melt away if you were to turn off the electricity. That's a cast out of his own face.
If you look at it, it doesn't seem hyperealistic cause its not of skin colour and all, but if you really think about it, what can be more real than blood itself? You know the irony. Also, it draws a parallel between life and technology, like how we're dependent on technology, just like this sculpture.
Just a few brief points.
Garden, 2000.
Its a huge walk in refrigerator about 12 meters long made up of nearly 1000 specimens immersed in liquid silicone to preserve them, such that they can neither grow nor perish. Its like this unreal dimension that cannot exist unless artificially produced. Though fake, they still produce an enchantment of continuous spring.
I shall leave it for anybody's own interpretation haha.
Eternal Spring: sunflower, 1998.
Somewhat like the one above. The flowers here are displayed at the moment of their most perfect florescenece. As long as they remain frozen the illusions of this perfect moment of life is maintained; if the fridge is turned off the processes of life will resume and they will rot. The frozen flowers are soaked in silicone, an example of beauty suspended in death.
(Yes I got this from the SOVA notes haha. Because long winded me would end up writing long paragraphs)
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