Lorenzo Quinn |1966-
Lorenzo Quinn (born 7 May 1966) is a contemporary Italian sculptor and former actor. He is the eighth son of actor Anthony Quinn.
Biography
Lorenzo Quinn was born on 7 May 1966 in Rome, Italy, the son of Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn and his wife Iolanda (nee Addolori). Quinn was raised in the United States and Italy and presently lives in Barcelona in Spain.[2] He began practising art as a painter in the early 1980s when he enrolled at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York City. In 1988 he married Giovanna Cicutto and the family moved to Spain.
Acting
Quinn professionally acted in the late 1980s, portraying the young Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari in the 1988 Italian film Stradivari, directed by Giacomo Battiato. Quinn's father Anthony starred in the same production as the adult Stradivari. Quinn subsequently played the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in Dalí, alongside English actress Sarah Douglas portraying his wife Gala. Quinn won the best new actor award at the Biarritz Film Festival for his work on Dalí.
First Exhibitions
Volare at Cadogan Place, London, England
In the early 2000s, Quinn made the decision to abandon his acting career to instead devote himself entirely to art.
Quinn’s public art includes Encounters, commissioned by Fundatur and donated to Mallorca in 2003. It is now situated in Palma de Mallorca.[7] Further works are on display at King Edward’s Wharf – Creation, Volare and Crossing a Millennium – with their characteristic focus on the hand, the human form, and the circle.
The exhibition Equilibrium took place in November 2009, coinciding with the installation of Give and Take III in Berkeley Square for six months. Included in the show were several new sculptures, including What Came First? (male and female forms lying in egg-shaped hemispheres) and Home Sweet Home (a marble woman cocooned in barbed wire).
Quinn's Forces of Nature series of sculptures have been displayed in England, Italy, the United States, Singapore, Netherlands, Qatar and Monaco.
In October 2018 the sculpture Stop Playing was donated to the city of Venice and installed in Forte Marghera.
Lorenzo Quinn's Sculpture 'Support' on display at the UN Climate Change Conference
Lorenzo Quinn was chosen by the United Nations Climate Change to create a 3-meter version of his monumental sculpture Support for the Climate Change Conference, COP25 in Madrid (2-13 December). The sculpture is a reminder of rising sea levels that threaten Venice and all coastal cities around the world. The installation, commissioned by Halcyon Art International and first unveiled by Quinn at the Venice Biennale in 2017, shows two hands emerging from the Grand Canal in Venice to protect and support the historical building of the Ca' Sagredo Hotel. The 3-meter-high version of the installation is being brought to COP25 in Madrid to raise awareness for climate change and illustrate humanity's capacity to damage the environment but also its ability to save it.
'As an artist, I have always tried to be coherent, and since I believe in helping to build a sustainable world, my art has always reflected this message. Venice, like many cities around the world, is threatened and needs our help and protection. Let's join 'hands' and make a lasting change.' - Lorenzo Quinn
