Lorenzo Quinn (1966) is an Italian sculptor and former actor, and the fifth son of actor Anthony Quinn.
Quinn was born in Rome, Italy, a son of the Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn. Quinn was raised in the United States and Italy and presently lives in Barcelona in Spain. Quinn began practicing art as a painter in the early 1980s when he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in New York City.
Quinn professionally acted in the late 1980s, portraying the young Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari in the 1988 Italian film Stradivari. Quinn's father Anthony starred as the adult Stradivari. Quinn subsequently starred as 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.
In 2008 Evolution, an exhibition of Quinn’s output, was chosen to inaugurate the new premises of Halcyon Gallery in Mayfair, London, and the gallery published a book on his work.[citation needed]
Equilibrium, an exhibition of Quinn’s sculptures, followed 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.[citation needed]
Quinn's Forces of Nature series of sculptures appear in different locations around the world including England, the United States, Singapore and Monaco.
Commissions
"Support" 2019 at the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel, Venice.The installation is "a gigantic sculpture of a child’s hands reaching out of the Grand Canal, calling attention to climate change that threatens, among other things, to sink the lagoon city."
"Building Bridges" is a part of the Venice Biennale. The installation consists of "six pairs of arching hands creating a bridge over a Venetian waterway, symbolic of the need to build bridges and overcome divisions."
Among other commissions, for the people of Birmingham, Quinn created the sculpture Tree of Life representing those that had perished in the Birmingham air raids in World War II.
He has also worked on commissions for the Sports Academy ASPIRE in the Gulf states and many in Spain where he currently lives with his wife and children.
Quinn also created the sculpture Encounters, commissioned by Fundatur and donated to the city of Mallorca in 2003. It is now situated opposite the Museum of Modern art in Palma de Mallorca.
Quinn designed the 'Ride The World' trophy for the MOTO GP championships.
Charity
Quinn supports many charities. Proceeds from the sale of his sculpture Friendship Fish went to environmental causes. He was a Young Artists Patron for Unesco. He donated the sculpture Hope to the Blind Museum (Museo Tiflológico) in Madrid, Spain. He also designed the "Children In Need" award which was awarded to Heather Mills and Phil Collins in 2005.
Quinn also co-owns an Italian Restaurant Galeria Gastronomica situated in Barcelona, which is also the setting for many of his sculptures. Most of the restaurant's hardware items such as the cutlery were designed by him.
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Creation Bronze
Birmingham, England-Installations, 2001 |
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Rise Through Education
Qatar, 2005
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This is not a game
Italy, 2011 1 |
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Vroom Vroom
England, 2011 |
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2012 Dolce Vita
London, England, 2012-Installations-Lorenzo-Quinn |
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Dar y Tomar (Give and Take)
2013 |
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Harmony
Barcelona, Spain, 2013 |
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Harmony
Barcelona, Spain, 2013 |
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Atlas
2015 |
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I Will Catch You If You Fall
Park Lane, London, 2015 |
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Mine not Mine
Mumbai, India, 2015
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Each in their own world
2016 |
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Laduree
Doha, Qatar, 3016 |
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Volare
2016
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A dangerous game
2017 |
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Finding Love
London England, 2017 |
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Empowerment
2018
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Empowerment
Berkshire, England, 2018 |
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Give from the Heart
2018
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Give from the Heart
2018
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Stop Playing
Venice, Italy, 2018 |
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The Force of Nature II
Qatar, 2018 |
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The Force of Nature
Model, 2018 |
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Building Bridges
Venice, Italy, 2019 |
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Building Bridges
Venice, Italy, 2019 |
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Hand of God
Shanghai, 2019 |
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Hand of God
Shanghai, 2019 |
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Give
Florence, Italy, 2020 |
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Give
Florence, Italy, 2020 |
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words
n.d.
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Dreams Come True
Shanghai |
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Absolument fabuleux !
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