Carla Valentine Instagram – I have always been fascinated by this piece, and the detail in pic 4 is lovely: it’s called “Self” by Marc Quinn and it’s made of his own blood, frozen. It’s best explained via his own website:
“Self is a self-portrait of the artist, but one that literally uses his body as material since the cast of Quinn’s head, immersed in frozen silicone, is created from ten pints of his own blood. In this way, the materiality of the sculpture has both a symbolic and real function.
The work was made at a time when Quinn was an alcoholic and a notion of dependency – of things needing to be plugged in or connected to something to survive – is apparent since the work needs electricity to retain its frozen appearance. A further iteration made every five years, this series of sculptures presents a cumulative index of passing time and an ongoing self-portrait of the artist’s ageing and changing self.”
The first image is “Self” (1991) and subsequent images are 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011 – various iterations of the same piece.
#marcquinn #blood #frozen #self | Posted on 25/Jan/2024 01:05:54
