Marc Quinn

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is brighter and more vibrant in the original, with the blue tending more towards indigo. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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Marc Quinn's work explores cycles of growth and evolution through topical issues such as genetics and the manipulation of DNA. Thaw at Glen Ogle is from his latest series of works: monumental flower paintings based on photographic still lives that Quinn sets up in his studio. Executed in a hyper-realist manner depicting exotic orchids, fruit and flowers, it mirrors our appetite for perfection in natural forms. It continues Quinn's colourful examination of mankind's increasingly distant relationship to nature, as well as our desire for ever more complex and altered fruit and flora during any time of the year, no matter what the season. Like Quinn's walk-through installation Garden, (2000), which brought together hundreds of frozen flowers immortalised in an impossibly perfect botanical situation, these large paintings provide a beautiful yet foreboding comment on plant evolution, climate change and global warming.