Arne Quinze is born in 1971 in Belgium but lives and works in Miami (US) and Sint-Martens-Latem (Belgium). In the eighties he started out as a graffiti artist although he didn’t finish an official art eduction. The urge to express himself artistically and to strive for this dates from this period. Quinze creates large and small sculptures, drawings, paintings and large scaled. Smaller works, sketches and drawings are the basis and research for his large installations. In searching himself and optimizing every new idea Quinze is entirely absorbed in his world and creations. Recurring fundamentals in Quinze’s oeuvre are the use of multiple types of wood even refuse wood, electrical colours in fluorescent paint (yellow, orange, black) and themes referring to social interaction, communication, rhythms and the interplay of lines.

What drives him is the belief in the realization of an idealistic society where all individuals are communicating and interacting. Quinze aims to bring people together and push them into a vigorous dialogue. Communal activities flourish and social cohesion is the norm. His installations are built to provoke reaction and to intervene in daily life of the by-passers confronted with the sculpture. The Sequence in Brussels (Belgium), The Visitor in Beirut (Lebanon), Uchronia in the Nevada desert (US), The Traveller in Munich (Germany) are a handful of references. Neglecting our human needs we live in an era where direct social interaction has been well-nigh diminished to nonexistent. But man cannot survive alone, we seek refuge and joy in one another.

In every culture he comes across he unravels these physical processes drawing inspiration for his oeuvre that is fueled by overwhelming positivism. All installations are touching the essence of Quinze, he rather creates a new context rather than altering an existing one. Besides building architectural sculptures Quinze creates complex art pieces and video-installations blazing his vision in society how people see themselves and society in present and future. Among others in the galleries Phillips de Pury and Saatchi in London (UK) he exhibited with Africa Electronica showing African Masks, Bidonvilles, Stilthouses and Chaos pieces.

Quinze is an obsessive collector of used materials which he recycles to give their lines new life in the manifestation of his vision. In editing what he has found he redefines the layers and textures in his compositions. He aspires to improve the original imperfections in his quest to create the perfect line even while knowing this line might not exist. Every new creative breed captures his research and study on interaction, urbanity movement, speed and light in present-day society. Quinze scans a city in a blink of an eye and divulges the ongoing rhythm expressing the continuously evolving of human beings and their surroundings. But above all Arne Quinze tries to evoke communication and human interaction.

As an artist Quinze puts up a continuing fight within himself, with clients and his conceptual ideas. It’s an unceasing struggle encouraging people to confide in building up from scratch a whole new reality. In this endeavor Quinze feels very much related to the first leading contemporary artists in the world amongst them Miro, Picasso, Giacometti and Calder. What combines them is the struggle they brought about with more conservative powers to freely express themselves throughout their creating process. Quinze challenges himself round the clock yielding to the endless experiment art means to him.