Moscow Government, Moscow Department of Culture, Museum “Moscow House of Photography” Multimedia Art Museum with support of British Council present the first solo exhibition in Russia of the renowned British artist Marc Quinn «The Big Wheel Keeps on Turning».

The exhibition will take place at the Multimedia Art Museum from 26 October to 16 December 2012.

The exhibition presents more than 60 pieces by Quinn – sculptures, large-scale paintings, multimedia installations – created across his career and representing the entire spectrum of his oeuvre. It includes a number of 2012 works including hyper-realistic paintings from the series The Eye of History which depict the human eye resembling either bottomless ocean depths, or distant galaxies and bronze sculptures from his recent “Brave New World” exhibition.  

Marc Quinn (b. 1964), as well as other the other "Young British Artists" (including Damien Hirst, the Chapman brothers, Tracey Emin), is known for his extravagant and daring creative practices. In 1991, during a period of five months, he collected and froze his own blood to create from it a sculpture of his own head , the resulting self-portrait "I". In 2000 , commissioned by Miuccia Prada, he created a unique frozen garden in Fondazione Prada. In 2005, his sculpture of the pregnant disabled artist Alison Lapper was famously displayed on the Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square in London. In 2008, Quinn presented a 50-pound gold statue of the British top model Kate Moss, bent in a yoga posture.

Each new work of Marc Quinn generates great interest from press, collectors and the public around the world. Exhibitions of his work have been hosted major museums and galleries in the UK and across Europe: Tate Britain (1995), Kunstverein, Hannover (1999), Fondazione Prada, Milan (2000), Tate Liverpool (2002), Irish Museum of Modern Art (2004), MACRO (2006), DHC / ART Fondation pour l'art contemporain, Montreal (2007), and Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2009), the Oceanographic Museum, Monaco (2012).

Marc Quinn's favorite materials include marble, wax, flesh, human skeletons, animal carcasses, and gold. The artist masterfully combines art and science, explores the human and natural forms, and plays with a situation of life and death, beauty and ugliness, immediacy and eternity. For more information about Marc Quinn please see the artist’s website: http://www.marcquinn.com