Visualization of Bloodcube housed in its Norman Foster-designed pavilion [outside the New York Public Library]. Photograph: Marc Quinn studio/Human Love Worldwide/Norman Foster Foundation.
Marc Quinn. Courtesy of Marc Quinn Studio.
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The self-titled survey took place in 2009 at The Goss-Michael Foundation in partnership with the Rachofsky Collection. On being honored this year he emphasizes, “It’s a great thing to receive in Dallas. I’ve made a special new piece, which will be debuted at the auction, based on hands holding each other. It’s from a whole new series about the different ways of communicating with each other. It’s about the human touch. The sculpture looks like something from a classical civilization as well as space age.” Quinn, who consistently donates artworks to RE:DEFINE and attends the event regularly, sat next to Nancy Nasher and David Haemisegger at the seventh annual gala held at NorthPark Center last year. “I went to actually visit Nancy Nasher’s parents’ home with Howard [Rachofsky] at the same time I installed Self in the 90s, but I didn’t meet Nancy until much later. It was so great to finally meet her through the Nasher Sculpture Center. Then I went to NorthPark, which is an extraordinary idea to put museumquality art into the reach of ordinary people…this is something I’m really interested in. If you put great art in front of people who are not interested in art, you awaken their interest in art.” The last couple of years have been demanding of the artist as he tackles Bloodcube, a project he began with a sketch drawn on the wrapper of a bar of chocolate on a plane trip from China to London. Quinn was inspired to do something about the crisis in 2015, “when there was the first hit of refugees coming from Syria.” The project, drawn from the blood of 5,000 people, both refugees and non-refugees, will open late this year on the steps of the New York Public Library, which since 1895 makes knowledge
