Marc Quinn
The idea of the body as geography is the most fundamental primary beginning of geography—it is the land in which we live. Each person's body is their own continent, in a way.
Marc Quinn via The Threads of History, 2013
Marc Quinn (1964, UK) first came to prominence in the early 1990s, when he and several peers redefined what it was to make and experience contemporary art. Marc Quinn makes art about what it is to be a person living in the world – whether it concerns Man’s relationship with nature and how that is mediated by human desire; or what identity and beauty mean and why people are compelled to transform theirs; or representing current, social history in his work. His work also connects frequently and meaningfully with art history, from Modern masters right back to antiquity.
