A 50kg solid gold statue of supermodel Kate Moss in a yogic pose has been unveiled.
Siren, a £1.5 million solid gold sculpture, is one of several contemporary art works in the exhibition Statuephilia. Marc Quinn’s solid gold statue of Moss, said to be the largest gold statue to be made in the world since the time of Ancient Egypt and described as an “Aphrodite of our times”, finds fitting setting at the centre of the Nereid Gallery, interacting with the great Greek beauties that surround it. Moss has long been the supermodel of choice for fashion designers. But Marc Quinn is only the latest in an long line of contemporary artists who find inspiration in the icon who transcended Croydon
Quinn, who hopes to show the image across the world, suggested she had an abstract appeal for artists. “This sculpture is about the abstractions that rule our lives, the desire for money, immortality, for beauty. Kate Moss is a cultural hallucination we have all agreed to create”.
“She is the only person who has the ubiquity and silence that is required in an image of divinity, that has been created through time, so that we can project onto it,”
“What he(Quinn) might be doing here is creating her in a cult-like form, in a solid-gold state, as a comment on celebrity culture and how it has mythologised Moss like a goddess, feverishly,”
Damn you Moss! Transcended Croydon!! You are practically throwing down the gauntlet!!!
Forgot to say this is a *true story* – check out the sculpture, it is fantastic but also dead sinister – the first thing that came into my head when I saw it was the hindu goddess Kali
Yoga – Indian tradition – Indiana Jones – The Temple of Doom – Kali
(I’ll just pop my diseased leaky brain back in it’s sponge-bag and leave shall I ?)
What’s really terrifying is that the sculpture really is Kate Moss, coated in gold. She was a willing participant. The woman who has taken her place is just a stand-in, a perfect echo of Moss. Kate herself is biding her time. She was vaguely aware of the Statosphere and her transformation into a gold statue is her attempt at… something. It’s hard to say whether she’s trying to Ascend or knew she was going to and ritually trapped herself to keep that slot from being filled… or something entirely unrelated. Maybe she just wanted to be a Goddess On Earth.
An angry Plutophage in Surrey is already plotting to steal and consume the statue. Something about an over-exposed, coked-up supermodel immortalized as a goddess gets under her skin.
This’ll give all those pornomancers a hardon. 😀
Seriously though, Kate Moss had better watch her back as there are many other supermodels, especially of the Alt Scene, who are fast catching up with her in cult status. Dita von Teese is the head duke in Germany and April Flores is getting quite a following in the UK amongst lovers of more, *ahem*, robust women…