Lorenzo Quinn Italian, b. 7 May 1966

“With sculpture you feel like you’re a creator; it’s the closest a man can come to giving birth. The other thing is that sculpture is timeless. The artist will always be alive in the work.”
Contemporary Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn is a leading figurative sculptor whose work is inspired by such masters as Michelangelo, Bernini and Rodin. Exhibited internationally, his monumental public art and smaller, more intimate pieces transmit his passion for eternal values and authentic emotions. He is best known for expressive recreations of human hands. ‘I wanted to sculpt what is considered the hardest and most technically challenging part of the human body’, he asserts. ‘The hand holds so much power – the power to love, to hate, to create, to destroy.’