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拍品专文
Marc Quinn's depiction of supermodel Kate Moss was inspired by Moss's iconic status yet slightly ambiguous place in our culture: a creature who is admired and observed obsessively, but about whom we have little real knowledge. The artist states: "She is a contemporary version of the Sphinx. A mystery. There must be something about her that has clicked with the collective unconscious to make her so ubiquitous, so spirit of the age. When people look back at this time she'll be the archetypal image, just as Louise Brooks was in the 1920s. For me as an artist it's interesting to make something about the time I live in" (C. Higgins, "Meet Kate Moss-Contorted," Guardian, 12 April 2006).
"To me, this sculpture is an addition to a long lineage of archetypal female images, stretching from the Venus of Willendorf in Prehistoric times, through Nefertiti's bust in Egypt, images of the Virgin, and Botticelli's Birth of Venus in the Renaissance, to Warhol's Marilyn and in my own work...The yoga-like pose, reminiscent of an Indian sculpture of Shiva, is in a contemporary scene about trying to affect spirit through the body. It also seems to symbolize that Kate's image is sculpted by society's collective desire, contorted by outside influences. She is the reflection of ourselves, a knotted Venus for our age, a mirror, a mystery, a sphinx" (Marc Quinn, Marc Quinn, Recent Sculpture, exh. cat., Groningen, 2006, p. 114).
"To me, this sculpture is an addition to a long lineage of archetypal female images, stretching from the Venus of Willendorf in Prehistoric times, through Nefertiti's bust in Egypt, images of the Virgin, and Botticelli's Birth of Venus in the Renaissance, to Warhol's Marilyn and in my own work...The yoga-like pose, reminiscent of an Indian sculpture of Shiva, is in a contemporary scene about trying to affect spirit through the body. It also seems to symbolize that Kate's image is sculpted by society's collective desire, contorted by outside influences. She is the reflection of ourselves, a knotted Venus for our age, a mirror, a mystery, a sphinx" (Marc Quinn, Marc Quinn, Recent Sculpture, exh. cat., Groningen, 2006, p. 114).