Lorenzo Quinn
Lorenzo Quinn | |
|---|---|
 Quinn with his father, the actor Anthony Quinn at the 40th Annual Emmy Awards, August 28, 1988. | |
| Born | May 7, 1966 |
| Occupation(s) | Sculptor (1982–present) Actor (1988–1999) |
| Spouse |
Giovanna Cicutto (m. 1988) |
| Children | 3 |
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 7th May 1966 in Rome, Italy, the son of Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn and his wife Iolanda (nee Addolori)[1]. Quinn was raised between the United States and Italy and presently lives in Barcelona in Spain[2]. 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.[3] In 1988 he married Giovanna Cicutto and the family moved to Spain when their first child was born.
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.[4] Quinn subsequently played the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in Dalí, alongside English actress Sarah Douglas portraying his wife Gala.[5] Quinn won the best new actor award at the Biarritz Film Festival for his work on Dalí.[6]
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[7].
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 different locations around the world including England, Italy, the United States, Singapore and Monaco.[8]
Commissions
Among other commissions, for the people of Birmingham, Quinn created the sculpture Tree of Life[9] 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[10] and many in Spain where he currently lives with his wife and children. He also has a permanent exhibition at the Rafart Gallery[11] in Almenar, Spain.
Quinn designed the Ride The World trophy for the MOTO GP championships.[12]
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[13] and Phil Collins in 2005.
Galeria Gastronomica
Quinn co-owns the Italian restaurant Galeria Gastronomica[14] 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.[15]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Onassis: The Richest Man in the World | Alexander Onassis | TV movie. |
| 1989 | Stradivari | Antonio Stradivari (young) | |
| 1991 | Dalí | Salvador Dalí | |
| 1994 | Alles Glück dieser Erde | Renato Tucci | TV series. |
| 1998 | Bomba de relojería | Luca Squarcina | |
| 1999 | Tierra de cañones | Eduard de Sicart | |
| Oriundi | Young Giuseppe Padovani | ||
| Camino de Santiago | Sebastián | TV mini-series. |
References
- ^ "Chi è Lorenzo Quinn". Giornale di brescia (in Italian). 2018-01-19. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- ^ "Lorenzo Quinn, la mano dell'arte | Barnebys Magazine". Barnebys.it (in Italian). 2020-05-07. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- ^ Merritt Gallery & Renaissance Fine Arts: Lorenzo Quinn - Merritt Gallery & Renaissance Fine Arts, accessdate: November 24, 2017
- ^ Cesare Biarese; Francesca Solinas (1988). EuropaCinema 88: V mostra del cinema europeo. EDIZIONI DEDALO. p. 161. ISBN 978-88-220-4528-7.
- ^ Àngel Comas (2003). Diccionari de llargmetratges: el cinema a Catalunnya després del franquisme, 1975-2003. Cossetània Edicions. p. 75. ISBN 978-84-96035-96-6.
- ^ Cambio 16. Información y Revistas, S.A. July 1991.
- ^ "Lorenzo Quinn - Artists". Washington Green. Archived from the original on 2011-09-06. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
- ^ "Gravity-Defying Sculpture of Mother Nature Rotating Earth". My Modern Met. 2013-04-16. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
- ^ "Birmingham's Blitz victims remembered". BBC. 2005-10-07. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
- ^ "ASPIRE - Home page". www.aspire.qa. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007.
- ^ "Lorenquinn Gallery". Lorenzoquinnlleida.es. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
- ^ Independent Newspapers Online (2010-05-05). "New MotoGP World Championship Trophy". motoring.co.za. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
- ^ Heather Mills - Heather's Awards
- ^ "Galeria Gastronomica". Galeria Gastronomica. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
- ^ "Cutlery - By CUNILL - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at Nextag - Price - Review". Nextag.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
External links
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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