Marc Quinn
Labyrinth Deboss (large)
Labyrinth Deboss (large)
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2013
1460 x 1200 mm
Woodcut print on Somerset 410gsm paper
Edition of 20
Hand signed and numbered on the front
This woodcut print from Marc Quinn's Labyrinth series is a detail of a fingerprint. The oval shape is raised with the linear pattern debossed onto the page.
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Labyrinth Series
These works reflect the idea of a super-surveillance culture, where individual identity is reduced to and controlled by a fingerprint. As Quinn has commented, “we (have) become encoded into a unique abstraction which is also profoundly figurative”. The Labyrinth series of paintings and sculptures use the ready-made, abstract pattern of a person's fingerprint, enlarged and painted onto oval shaped canvases or cast into bronze relief sculptures. The key to our identity, the patterns look abstract but they are in fact totally unique. As with his earlier DNA works, Quinn is interested in the idea of making portraits of people that are more than just an image of them - here an actual visual index of their identity.