Lot 607: Quentin Clemence, born 1956 Beauty and the Beast

Quentin Clemence, born 1956 Beauty and the Beast Copper Unique Approx 250cm.;98ins wide Born in Glastonbury, England in 1956, Clemence was brought up in London, studied fine art at Goldsmiths' College, with a special interest in performance art and installations. He moved to Ireland and then to southern Europe working for many years with a small circus and as a puppeteer. Since 1986 he has lived and worked in a steep valley at the base of the mountain of Montserrat near Barcelona. In 2002 he was awarded the Sabastia Guasch prize (FAD, Barcelona) for his contribution to the opera Lucrecia Borja by Carlos Santos for the inauguration of the Teatre Lluire in Barcelona. In the summer of 2002 he exhibited his automata in the Caixa Forum Museum as part of the 20th anniversary of the art gallery Sala Montcada .The same summer he was invited to exhibit for the inauguration of the surrealism exhibition in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum in Dusseldorf. In 2002 facing increasing demand for his work he put aside performance and puppetry to dedicate more time to sculpture