Summary
The portfolio Marble was created from a group of eight sculptures Quinn produced in 1999-2000 entitled Peter Hull, Selma Mustajbasic, Jamie Gillespie, Alexandra Westmoquette, Tom Yendell, Catherine Long, Stuart Penn, Helen Smith: Group Portrait. The sculptures are portraits of men and women who were born with physical disabilities or have had limbs amputated due to accidents or illness. Quinn had previously made several sculptures using fragments cast from his own body, as in The Etymology of Morphology 1996 (T07239), or his body deformed through sculptural process in No Visible Means of Escape IV 1996 (T07238), before he was inspired to work with actual physical deformity. Looking at fragmented classical sculptures in the British Museum, he wondered how viewers would respond to bodies that had been damaged during their lifetime rather than after being transformed into objects through artistic representation… (read more)
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