Lorenzo Quinn

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

Biography

Lorenzo Quinn was born on 7 May 1966 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. He began practicing art as a painter in the early 1980s when he enrolled at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York City.Merritt Gallery & Renaissance Fine Arts
Lorenzo Quinn - Merritt Gallery & Renaissance Fine Arts
accessdate: November 24, 2017 In 1988 he married Giovanna Cicutto and the family moved to Spain.

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''.

First Exhibitions

In the early 2000s Quinn made the decision to abandon his acting career to instead devote himself entirely to art.

Quinn’s public art includes ''Encounters'', commissioned by Fundatur and donated to Mallorca in 2003. It is now situated in Palma de Mallorca. Further works are on display at King Edward’s Wharf – ''Creation'', ''Volare'' and ''Crossing a Millennium'' – with their characteristic focus on the hand, the human form, and the circle.

The exhibition ''Equilibrium'' took place 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 cocooned in barbed wire).

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

Commissions

Among other commissions, for the people of Birmingham, Quinn created the sculpture ''Tree of Life''
representing those that had perished in the Birmingham air raids in World War II.

Quinn has 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. 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.

In December 2020 the sculpture ''You are the World'' was installed at AFAS Software – Leusden, in Netherlands.

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.

Sculpture in Venice

In May 2017 the sculpture ''Support'' was inaugurated in Grand Canal as a reminder of rising sea levels and climate change problems.

In 2019 the sculpture ''Building Bridges'' was inaugurated in the basin of the Arsenale in Venice. The sculpture is formed by six pairs of hands representing humanity's universal values - Friendship, Faith, Help, Love, Hope and Wisdom.

In July 2022 Quinn returned to Venice with a new sculpture: Baby 3.0, a mesh sculpture of a baby overlooking the Grand Canal in the garden of the Metropolitan City of Venice.

Galeria Gastronomica

Quinn co-owns the Italian restaurant ''Galeria Gastronomica'' 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

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1966 births
Living people
Artists from Rome
20th-century Italian sculptors
20th-century Italian male artists
Italian male sculptors
Italian contemporary artists
21st-century Italian sculptors
Italian people of Irish descent
Italian people of Mexican descent
Italian expatriates in Spain
21st-century Italian male artists