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Born on 7 May 1966 in Rome to the Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn and his second wife, costume designer Yolanda Addolori, Lorenzo Quinn had a childhood split between Italy and the United States of America. His father had a profound influence on him, both in terms of living in the limelight of the film world and with respect to Anthony’s early work in painting and architecture.
Lorenzo Quinn studied at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York, planning to be a Surrealist painter. However, at 21 he decided that his future lay in sculpture, which could better accommodate his energy and originality. He vividly recalls the moment in 1989 when he felt that he had created his first genuine work of art: ‘I had made a torso from Michelangelo’s drawing of Adam … an artisan’s job…. I had an idea and began chiseling away, and Eve came out of Adam’s body…. It had started as a purely academic exercise, yet it had become an artwork.’
In summer 2011 Lorenzo Quinn was selected as the exhibiting artist for the Italian Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, (4 June – 27 November 2011). His powerful and provocative installation This is Not a Game was positioned across two different sites at the Biennale, the Italian Pavilion in the Arsenale and San Servolo Island, Venice. The first stage of the installation situated on San Servolo Island features a life-size T55 Russian battle tank and life-size cast ‘toy’ soldiers, held by life-like giant hands, poised in positioning the tank and soldiers, as a child would in play. The second stage of the installation was exhibited at the Italian Pavilion, curated by Vittoro Sgarbi.
Later in 2011, Lorenzo Quinn was invited to exhibit Leap of Faith and Hand of God at the Winter Palace in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (24 June – 17 September 2011). The sculptures were displayed at the Winter Palace, alongside an exhibition and installation of outdoor sculptures by Henry Moore. The installations, curated by Ekaterina Lopatkina, Curator of Contemporary Art at the State Hermitage Museum, coincided with ‘White Nights’ the world-famous annual event.
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