Marc Quinn "Iris"
Mary Boone Gallery (Midtown)
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An exhibition of new paintings by Marc Quinn features round canvases each depicting in gigantic scale the iris of a human eye– turbulently streaked and spotted, suffused with bright colors, and highly individual. Although photorealistic, the disembodied images might equally serve as renditions of whirling interstellar space. Recurring themes in Quinn’s work– the body and identity, flesh and the spirit– are examined at their foundation: since pre-Biblical times the eyes have been likened to representations of the soul. Quinn considers the eyes to be “doors of perception… the link between us and the world.” As in the seminal work “Self” from 199 – in which the Artist’s head was cast in his own blood and frozen– these irises show Quinn’s fascination with bringing the inside out; “they are like a leakage of the vivid interior world of the body to the monochrome world of the skin.”
[Image: Marc Quinn "IRIS (We Share Our Chemistry with the Stars)" (2009) oil on canvas 110 in. diameter.]
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Schedule
from October 30, 2009 to December 19, 2009