A solid gold sculpture of British supermodel Kate Moss worth £1.5 million was unveiled in London yesterday.
The 50kg work is by Marc Quinn, famous for a controversial sculpture installed in London’s Trafalgar Square in 2005- 2007 of a heavily pregnant and armless Thalidomide victim.
“I thought the next thing to do would be to make a sculpture of the person who’s the ideal beauty of the moment,” he said. “But even Kate Moss doesn’t live up to the image.”
Moss, 34, was in the news this week for her comments on size-zero fashion models. She lamented how thin she was in the early years of her career, which began when she was 15.
“I didn’t eat for a long time. Not on purpose.” “You’d be on shoots with bad food, or get on a plane and the food would be so disgusting you couldn’t eat it,” she told the US magazine Interview .
“I remember standing up in the bath one day and I was so thin, but I was never anorexic.“I remember thinking, I don’t want to be this skinny.”
The golden sculpture, which is entitled Siren, will go on display surrounded by other pieces, including Crouching Venus, at the British Museum on October 4.
The show will run until January 25.
iSource: The Times (ZA)
Despite her dalliances with drugs, the police and bad-boy rockstars Kate will always remain a golden girl.
(See what we did there?)
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Statuephilia at The British Museum
