The artist establishes a close relationship with his sitters, in this case Matt Fraser and Catherine Long which lends the work a penetrating perceptiveness. Quinn was inspired by classical sculptures in the British Museum, contemplating the differences between the reactions people have to a sculpture without limbs and seeing a person missing an arm or a leg. Quinn's use of this almost luminous superwhite marble highlights his subversion of the heroic and the beautiful even further.
More information
Title of artwork, date
Kiss, 2001
Date supported
2004
Medium and material
Carrara marble
Dimensions
184 x 64 x 64 cm
Grant
62750
Total cost
93750

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