BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts & Culture | Solid gold Kate Moss statue revealed
Posted on: October 2, 2008
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A 50kg solid gold statue of model Kate Moss has been unveiled at the British Museum, in London.
The £1.5m sculpture, entitled Siren, is by artist Marc Quinn and is one of several contemporary sculptures in the exhibition Statuephilia.
Each work has been sited in a different gallery within the museum, placed with items from its permanent collection.
Quinn’s sculpture is said to be the largest gold statue created since the time of Ancient Egypt.
‘Ideal beauty’
Described by the museum as an “Aphrodite of our times”, it sits in the Museum’s Nereid Gallery, alongside its statues of famous Greek beauties.
Quinn, whose most famous work was Alison Lapper Pregnant, 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.
The museum hopes it will remind visitors of its diverse collection
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“But even Kate Moss doesn’t live up to the image.”
Other artists in the exhibition include Damien Hirst and Antony Gormley.
Hirst has addressed his fascination with death by filling the historic wall cases of the Enlightenment Gallery with 200 specially created skulls.
Nine-metre wingspan
Gormley’s Case for an Angel I will fills the entire front hall of the museum.
The work – a precursor to his celebrated public sculpture, Angel of the North – is raised high on a plinth. It boasts a nine-metre wingspan.
Ron Mueck’s Mask II, a self-portrait of the artist sleeping, is in the heart of the Living and Dying: Wellcome Trust Gallery with the museum’s monumental Maoi.
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