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HISTORYNOW

During the consecutive lockdowns of the last few years Marc Quinn has made tens of artworks for his project HISTORYNOW which were to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia. The basis of all these works is each time a screenshot from his iPhone of news and stories with which present-day scrolling human beings inform themseves about political, cultural, environmental … events happening in the world. The screenshots are then enlarged and printed, and treated by Quinn with paint or other materials.

Here and there put up in the archeological museum Quinn’s works are confronted with those of antiquity. And that’s all in all the fun of his project, the ‘dialogue’ between his HISTORYNOW and the HISTORYTHEN of the museum.

Photo of the week: Marc Quinn, HISTORYNOW, ‘Polar bears could be lost by 2100’ (detail), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, Venice Biennale, Italy 2022