The first solo exhibition in Ireland by British artist Marc Quinn,best known for his strikingly original sculptures based on the human body,opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 1 July 2004.Marc Quinn: Flesh presents 14 new sculptures cast,in this instance,from the meat of various animals.Despite this new medium,Quinn's recurring themes-of life and death,heroism and suffering and man's physical and psychological boundaries-persist to powerful effect.Quinn's original and affecting treatment of these universal concerns and his unfailing resourcefulness in his means of expressing them have made him one of the most important of that generation of artists who acquired celebrity status in the 1980s and '90s as yBas (young British artists).