Lorenzo Quinn facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Lorenzo Quinn
Quinn with his father, the actor Anthony Quinn at the 40th Annual Emmy Awards, August 28, 1988.
Born	(1966-05-07) 7 May 1966 (age 59) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Sculptor (1982–present) Actor (1988–1999)
Children	3
Parent(s)	Anthony Quinn (father)

Lorenzo Quinn (born May 7, 1966) is a famous Italian sculptor and a former actor. He is known for creating amazing sculptures, often featuring hands. He is also the son of the well-known actor, Anthony Quinn.

About Lorenzo Quinn

Lorenzo Quinn was born in Rome, Italy, on May 7, 1966. His father was the famous Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn. His mother was Iolanda Addolori.

Lorenzo grew up in both the United States and Italy. Today, he lives in Barcelona, Spain. He started his art journey as a painter in the early 1980s. He studied at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York City. In 1988, he married Giovanna Cicutto, and they moved to Spain with their family.

Acting Career

In the late 1980s, Lorenzo Quinn also worked as an actor. He played a young Italian violin maker named Antonio Stradivari in the 1988 Italian film Stradivari. His father, Anthony Quinn, played the older Stradivari in the same movie.

Later, Lorenzo played the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí in a film called Dalí. He even won an award for best new actor at the Biarritz Film Festival for his role as Dalí.

First Art Exhibitions

Volare at Cadogan Place, London, England

In the early 2000s, Lorenzo decided to stop acting. He wanted to focus completely on his art. He became a full-time sculptor.

Some of his first public artworks include Encounters. This sculpture was given to Mallorca, Spain, in 2003. It is now in Palma de Mallorca. Other sculptures like Creation, Volare, and Crossing a Millennium are on display at King Edward’s Wharf. These works often show hands, human shapes, and circles.

In November 2009, he had an exhibition called Equilibrium. During this time, his sculpture Give and Take III was placed in Berkeley Square for six months. The show also featured new sculptures. These included What Came First? (egg-shaped forms with male and female figures) and Home Sweet Home (a marble woman wrapped in barbed wire).

Lorenzo Quinn's Forces of Nature sculptures have been shown in many countries. These include England, Italy, the United States, Singapore, the Netherlands, Qatar, and Monaco. In October 2018, he gave the sculpture Stop Playing to the city of Venice. It was placed in Forte Marghera.

Special Art Projects

Gravity in Fraga, Spain.

Memorial of Facundo Bacardí i Masso, 2009 Sitges, Spain

La dolce vita 2011 at Park Lane / Curzon Gate, London, UK

Dar y Tomar (Give and Take) 2013 on the Passeig Maritim, Castelldefels, Spain

Lorenzo Quinn has created many special sculptures for different groups and places. For the people of Birmingham, England, he made the Tree of Life in October 2005. This sculpture remembers those who died in the Birmingham Blitz during World War II.

He has also made art for the ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence in the Gulf states. Many of his works are in Spain, where he lives with his family. You can also see his art at the Rafart Gallery in Almenar, Spain.

Quinn designed the Ride The World trophy for the MOTO GP championships. This trophy was given to the famous motorcycle racer Valentino Rossi in 2004.

In December 2020, his sculpture You are the World was installed in the Netherlands. Earlier that year, his sculpture Give traveled to different cities in Italy. It was shown in Florence, then Palermo, and later in Pietrasanta.

In 2021, his huge wire sculpture Together was shown at the "Forever is Now" exhibition. This event took place in front of the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.

Helping Others Through Art

Lorenzo Quinn supports many charities. Money from his sculpture Friendship Fish helped environmental causes. He was also a Young Artists Patron for Unesco, an organization that promotes peace and education.

He gave his sculpture Hope to the Blind Museum (Museo Tiflológico) in Madrid, Spain. He also designed the Children In Need award. This award was given to Heather Mills and Phil Collins in 2005.

Sculptures in Venice

In May 2017, Lorenzo Quinn's sculpture Support was placed in the Grand Canal in Venice. This artwork was a reminder about rising sea levels and climate change.

In 2019, another sculpture called Building Bridges was put in the Arsenale basin in Venice. This sculpture is made of six pairs of hands. Each pair represents important human values: Friendship, Faith, Help, Love, Hope, and Wisdom.

In July 2022, Quinn returned to Venice with a new sculpture called Baby 3.0. This mesh sculpture of a baby looks out over the Grand Canal from a garden.

From April to September 2024, Lorenzo Quinn is having an exhibition at the Ca' Rezzonico Museum. It is called "Souls of Venice". The exhibition shows 15 statues made of mesh, a metal weave. These statues represent important historical figures from Venice, like Marco Polo.

FIFA World Cup 2022 and Hyundai

For the FIFA World Cup 2022, the car company Hyundai asked Lorenzo Quinn to create a sculpture. It was called The Greatest Goal.

Hyundai Motor opened the FIFA Museum with a special World Cup exhibition. There, they showed Lorenzo Quinn's huge sculpture, The Greatest Goal. The sculpture looks like a giant frame made by two hands holding each other. This symbolizes the goal of creating a united world for a sustainable future.

At the same time, another sculpture called Qatar Forward was unveiled in the ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence area.

Galeria Gastronomica

Lorenzo Quinn is also a co-owner of an Italian restaurant in Barcelona called Galeria Gastronomica. Many of his sculptures are displayed there. He even designed some of the restaurant's items, like the cutlery.

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