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Cybernetic Engineered Cloned
Marc Quinn is not the first artist to use the carcasses of animals within his work. Other artist have used them as a way to explore mortality. Quinn takes a slightly different approach, using the carcass directly, creating poses that reference traditional figurative sculpture such as torsos or reclining nudes. "Somehow all life is the same. All life has the same origin. It has to because there is nowhere else for it to come from. Human beings are very grand and think they're above everything but in fact we're connected to everything else"
As with the Orchids, scale plays a very important part in Marc Quinns work. One of the main advantages of digitally recording an object is that in digital form scale is not fixed and can be varied witrh relative ease. Factum Arte now has what is possible the best equipped workshop for digitally recording objects in 3 dimnesions at the highest resolution, Using a white light scanners . This equipment was used to record 3 of Marc Quinn´s flayed rabbits from the show Flesh.
Once routed and reassembled the sculptures were brought back to Madrid where they were cast in bronze at Fademesa Alongside the 2.2 meter bronze casts Factum Arte also produces a miniature version of each. The 3D files were sent to Barcelona and printed in wax at a resolution of 25 microns. They were then moulded and cast in silver in Madrid.
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Reduced version of the standing rabbit (30mm tall) cast into 0.002mm wax layers. This was used to make an edition of silver rabbits. 
Cybernetic Engineered Cloned & Grown Rabbits
