Italian sculptor

Lorenzo Quinn (born May 7, 1966) is an Italian sculptor and former actor. He is the fifth son of actor Anthony Quinn.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Acting
• 3 Exhibitions
• 4 Commissions
• 5 Charity
• 6 Galeria Gastronomica
• 7 Filmography
• 8 References
• 9 External links

Biography

Quinn was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn and his wife Iolanda (nee Addolori). 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.

Acting

Quinn professionally acted in the late 1980s, portraying the young Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari in the 1988 Italian film Stradivari, directed by Giacomo Battiato. Quinn's father Anthony starred in the same production as the adult Stradivari. Quinn subsequently played 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.

Exhibitions

Volare at Cadogan Place, London, England

In the early 2000s Quinn returned to art. In 2008 Evolution, an exhibition of Quinn’s work, was selected to inaugurate the new premises of Halcyon Gallery in Mayfair, London. The gallery published an exhibition catalogue on his work.

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 co*ed in barbed wire).

Quinn's Forces of Nature series of sculptures have been displayed in different locations around the world including England, Italy, the United States, Singapore and Monaco.

Commissions

Gravity in Fraga, Spain. Memorial of Facundo Bacardí i M*o, 2009 Sitges, Spain La dolce vita 2011 at Park Lane / Curzon Gate, London, UK Dar y Tomar (Give and Take) 2013 on the P*eig Maritim, Castelldefels, Spain

"Support" 2017 at the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel, Venice. The installation is "a gigantic sculpture of a child’s hands reaching out of the Grand C*, calling attention to climate change that threatens, among other things, to sink the lagoon city."

"Building Bridges" was part of the collateral events at the Venice Biennale. The installation consists of "ix 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 Liferepresenting 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 created a "living sculpture" in the city of Sant Climent de Llobregat in Barcelona.

He also has a permanent exhibition at the Rafart Gallery in Almenar, Spain.

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.

Galeria Gastronomica

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.

Filmography

References

External links

• Official site
• Esculturas de Lorenzo Quinn