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These incredibly detailed images of eyes aren’t photos. They’re oil paintings from Marc Quinn’s 2009 exhibition Iris (We share our chemistry with the stars).
About the exhibition:
These round canvases each depict in gigantic scale the iris of a human eye – turbulently streaked and spotted, suffused with bright colors, and highly individual. Although photo- realistic, the disembodied images might equally serve as renditions of whirling interstellar space.
Recurring themes in Quinn’s work – the body and identity, flesh and the spirit – are ex- amined at their foundation: since pre-Biblical times the eyes have been likened to repre- sentations of the soul. Quinn considers the eyes to be “doors of perception… the link bet- ween us and the world”. As in the seminal work “Self” from 1991 – in which the Artist’s head was cast in his own blood and frozen – these irises show Quinn’s fascination with bringing the inside out; “they are like a leakage of the vivid interior world of the body to the monochrome world of the skin”.
Holiday gift alert! You can now buy an Iris scarf.
(via magnified-world)
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frozen blood.
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Marc Quinn, No Visible Means of Escape 1996
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centripetal morphology, Marc Quinn, glass and silver, 1996
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Self by Marc Quinn, 1991.
Blood, stainless steel, perspex, refrigeration equipment, 208 x 63 x 63 cm
(4.5 litres of blood were taken from the artist in a period of 5 months in order for him to make this. Self is an ongoing series that the artist does every 5 years.)(Source: marcquinn.com, via icetruckkiller)
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(Source: galafay)
