Siren
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Sphinx and Siren

…of this series is Siren (2008), a cast of Quinn’s sculpture Sphinx (2005), in solid 18 carat gold. Quinn says of the works, “Human beings often create images, begin to worship them and then forget the images were initially invented by them. They are left with an abstract image that…

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Marc Quinn (British, born 1964) is a leading contemporary artist. He first came to prominence in the early 1990s, when he and several peers redefined what it was to make and experience contemporary art. Marc Quinn makes art about what it is to be a person living in the world…