Arne Quinze

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My Secret Garden Rose du Roi 180503, 2018

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My greatest inspiration is nature: I'm fascinated by the diversity of nature, the fauna and flora. I contemplate this balance of beauty and equilibrium, this entanglement of colours and shapes.

Arne Quinze is a Belgian contemporary artist working with a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, and monumental installation. Fascinated by flora and fauna, the artist confronts nature’s untamed state and its role in urbanisation, ultimately transforming cities into open-air museums.

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When on first glance we observe some of the public installations of Arne Quinze (Belgium, 1971) such as, for example, The Sequence (Brussels, 2008), Camille (Rouen, 2010) or Red Beacon (Shanghai, 2010), one of the initial ideas that persists is that these pergolas he presents in streets, gardens and on bridges constitute a kind of impressionism which at first is difficult to pin down.

- Pedro Alberto Cruz, Minister of Culture for the region Murcia, Spain

Arne Quinze was born in 1971 in Belgium. In the eighties he began working as a graffiti artist but he never finished an official art education. Quinze creates large and small sculptures, drawings, paintings, and large-scale installations. Smaller works, sketches, and drawings are the basis and research for his large installations. Recurring fundamentals in his oeuvre are the use of wood and metal; electrical colors in fluorescent paint; and themes referring to social interaction, nature and urbanism.

What drives Quinze is the belief in the possible realization of an idealistic society where all individuals communicate and interact, aiming...

Arne Quinze was born in 1971 in Belgium. In the eighties he began working as a graffiti artist but he never finished an official art education. Quinze creates large and small sculptures, drawings, paintings, and large-scale installations. Smaller works, sketches, and drawings are the basis and research for his large installations. Recurring fundamentals in his oeuvre are the use of wood and metal; electrical colors in fluorescent paint; and themes referring to social interaction, nature and urbanism.

What drives Quinze is the belief in the possible realization of an idealistic society where all individuals communicate and interact, aiming to bring people together and push them into a vigorous dialogue. His unconventional public installations have challenged perceptions in the city centers of Belgium (Cityscape, The Sequence), Germany (The Traveller), France (Camille, Rock Strangers), Lebanon (The Visitor), China (Red Beacon), Brazil (Matarazzo), the USA (Uchronia, Timegate, Whispers), among others. In his own words, "Cities like open-air museums – it sounds like an idealistic dream, but I am striving to realize this dream. Confronting a public surrounded by art every day. Art has a positive influence on people and their personal development: it broadens their horizons and renders them more tolerant towards differences in society."

In every culture Quinze comes across, he unravels physical processes, drawing inspiration for his oeuvre, and is fueled by overwhelming optimism. Every new creative breed captures his research and study on interaction, and urban movement expressing the continuously evolution of human beings and their surroundings. Besides building architectural sculptures, he creates complex art pieces and video installations inscribing his vision in society of how people see themselves and society. Works as Bidonvilles, Stilthouses, Chaos, My Home My House My Stilthouse, My Safe Garden, Natural Chaos and Natural Chaos Satellites have been shown on several exhibitions. His largest light sculpture ever, entitled 'Oasis', was executed in 2022 for Riyadh's Noor Festival of Light.

Quinze lives and works in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium and Los Angeles, CA.

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