Twisted Twins
Spinx, a new Kate Moss Sculpture © Marc Quinn/Mary Boone Gallery
Marc Quinn, the artist known recently for his neo-classical marble sculptures of para- and quadriplegic people has expanded this series to include a new sculpture of Kate Moss in a twisted yoga position. I discovered this picture while reading “Being Bad: The Career Move”, an article about how Kate Moss, not matter how bad she can be, is still maintains her status and power as a popular model/icon, in last Thursday’s New York Times.
Pink Spinx next to The Fourth Plinth © Marc Quinn/Galerie Hopkins-Custot/Mary Boone Gallery
I was curious when I first saw the work and now with the new pop icon addition I’m left to wonder even more about his choice of subject matter. I’m always backing my belief that the art world is never at the front of anything, and in this case it’s obvious that the art world is actually running parallel to the population who chooses to ignores it, but instead of printing it in a tabloid and offering it for 50¢ a copy, we are interpreting it in marble and oil and selling it for £3.5 ($7.29 mil) as the portrait by Lucian Freud sold for at a Christies auction early last year.
Marc Quinn’s new work can be seen this May at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York. Although there is no mention of it on the Mary Boone website.
Kate Moss © Lucian Freud, Daily Mirror
To see other interpretations of Kate Moss by famous Artist see David Cohen on Kate Moss Depicted by Chuck Close, Lucian Freud, Gary Hume, and Alex Katz.