| Arne Quinze | |
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| Name | Arne Quinze |
| Nationality | Belgium |
| Birth date | December 15, 1971 |
| Birth place | Belgium |
| Work | |
| Practice name | Studio Arne Quinze (SAQ), Quinze & Milan Designers |
| Significant buildings | |
| Significant projects | Uchronia (Nevada), Cityscape (Brussels), The Sequence (Brussels), Traveller for Louis Vuitton (Munich) |
| Significant design | Primary Pouf (2001) |
| Awards and prizes | triple Henry Van de Velde Award (2001) |
Arne Quinze (born december 15 1971, Belgium) is a conceptual artist, futurologist, visionary and businessman, best known for his unconventional and controversial public art installations.
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As an artist and visionary, Quinze got famous by burning Uchronia: A message from the future, a 30m high and 60m wide wooden sculpture at the 2006 Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada, US. In 2006, he also creates Light, speed & innovation, a series of sculptures for Lexus in the United States. Cityscape (2007) and The Sequence (2008) are two of his giant wooden public art installations in the centre of Brussels, Belgium. In Munich, Germany, he built Traveller (2008) for French luxury fashion and leather goods brand Louis Vuitton.[1] At the 2008 Belgrade Design Week conference in Serbia, Arne Quinze revealed plans for similar gigantic wooden art installations over the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky and in the centre of Paris, France.[2]
Quinze's artwork is mainly about contrasts and contradiction, frequently based on various adaptations of "Bidonvilles" and "Stilthouses", broadening further on his studies of livability in todays context. They are considered to be houses for the future as a parody on the way how people are living now and tranquilize or accelerate the living process intentionally, provoking open communication in a society of human interaction.[3]
In 2007 he designs "Magna" and "Skytracer" futuristic studies for transport, considered as his vision on the new (conceptual) Lamborghini for 2100, an hommage to his favorite car brand. This science-fiction vehicles are listed among a series of other sculptures by the hand of Quinze that were presented for the first in his 2007 Mutagenesis solo-exhibition in Verona, Italy.[4]
Studio Arne Quinze (SAQ) is a Belgium based conceptual architecture and design agency, and a creative cell for research, urbanology and communication. SAQ completed creative projects all over the world, including projects ranging from architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, transport, footwear, visual arts, video and music to art installations.
Quinze is co-founder (1999) and art-director of Quinze & Milan, a furniture company, design label and creative platform which has facilities in Belgium and the US. Quinze & Milan is frequently commissioned by external international architecture and design firms, and collaborated on projects, such as the Seattle Central Library (2004), Utrecht University Library (2004), Wyly Theatre in Dallas, TX (2009) and Korean Air Lounges, Seoul (2008). [5][6]
As an industrial designer, he is perhaps best known for his Primary Pouf, a simple and colorful seating object and sidetable solution, and developer of QMFoam, the material and coating technique in which most of the company's first furniture collections were made of. Quinze designed furniture for a broad range of projects for leading architects and many of his designs have been popular among Hollywood celebrities, such as Brad Pitt and Oprah Winfrey.Template:Fact
In 2009, Quinze was commissioned art director of American singer Lenny Kravitz.[7][8]
In 2007, Arne Quinze started dating actress Barbara Becker, ex-wife of tennis player Boris Becker. Quinze is set to marry Barbara on 13 September 2009 in Berlin, Germany.[9]
Close friends with American singer Lenny Kravitz.
Quinze lives and works in both Miami, Florida and Kortrijk, Belgium.
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