The Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn is currently one of the most outstanding contemporary sculptors. His work is inspired by great masters such as Michelangelo, Bernini and Rodin. Exhibited internationally, both his monumental works of art shown in public spaces and smaller, more intimate works convey his passion for everlasting values and authentic emotions. He is best known for his expressive creations of human hands. "I wanted to model what is considered the most difficult part of the human body and therefore the greatest technical challenge," explains the artist. "The hand has immense power - the power to love, to hate, to create, to destroy."
Biography
Born in Rome in 1966, the son of Mexican actor Anthony Quinn and his second wife Yolanda Addoloi.
Studied art at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York.
He married Giovanna Cicutto in 1988. After the birth of their three children, the couple left New York and settled in Spain.
Quinn’s works are in private collections worldwide and have been exhibited internationally over the past 20 years. Commissioned by the United Nations, “The Tree of Life” was issued as a stamp by the organization in 1993. The following year, he was commissioned by the Vatican to create a sculpture of St. Anthony for the Basilica of the Saint in Padua to commemorate the 800th anniversary of his birth. The figure was blessed by the Pope in the presence of 35,000 people.
The public art he has created includes “Encounters”, exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art Palma de Mallorca, “The Tree of Life” at St. Martin’s Church in Birmingham, “Creation”, “Volare” and “Crossing a Millennium” at King Edward’s Landing Bridges. “Rise Though Education” and “Reaching for Gold” were installed at the ASPIRE Center of Excellence for Sport in Doha, Qatar in 2005.
Historian Consuelo Císcas Casaban describes Quinn’s work as “profound, spiritual and existential, as it deals with passions that we experience as human beings and raises questions about the absolute truth that we silently ask ourselves…These are sculptures based on the great myths and which refer to the everlasting and recurring themes of our civilization, which make the differences of culture and time disappear.
