Edited by Rebecca Alexander
Finally unvailed, Marc Quinn’s gold statue of Kate Moss is the largest (50kg of solid gold) gold statue created since the age of Ancient Egypt.
Quinn has said of using Moss as a subject: “I thought the next thing to do would be to make a sculpture of the person who’s the ideal beauty of the moment.”
Honestly, all this needs is a Flesh Light!
Thanks Mirror
Edited by Rebecca Alexander
Kate Moss is not cast in gold in a provocative yoga pose for the work of Marc Quinn. The 2006 piece titled Siren, will be unveiled today at the British museum.
As only befits one of the world’s greatest supermodels, Siren’s stats are impressive. It weighs in at 50 kilograms, is worth £1.5 million and is said to be the largest gold statue to be made in the world since the time of Ancient Egypt.
“I thought the next thing to do would be to make a sculpture of the person who’s the ideal beauty of the moment,” Quinn says of his supermodel subject.
Moss’ latest rendering joins works by the likes Damien Hirst and Anthony Gormley as part of the British Museum’s Statuephilia exhibition, which runs from October 4 to January 25.
Thanks Vogue UK
