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In 2006, ''Sphinx'', a sculpture of the British
In 2006, ''Sphinx'', a sculpture of the British fashion model
A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Thoug ...
Kate Moss
Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is a British model. Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her to fas ...
in a complicated yoga
Yoga (; sa, योग, lit=yoke' or 'union ) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-conscio ...
position was unveiled by the British sculptor Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, and painting. Quinn explores "what it is to be human in the world today" through subjects including the body, genetics, ident ...
.
The life-size sculpture is made of cast bronze, with a white-painted finish, and shows Moss wearing a leotard
A leotard () is a unisex skin-tight one-piece garment that covers the torso from the crotch to the shoulder. The garment was made famous by the French acrobatic performer Jules Léotard (1838–1870). There are sleeveless, short-sleeved, and ...
with her feet and hands behind her head.
The pose itself was modelled by a more experienced female yoga practitioner,
though the body, hands, and feet are based on Moss' measurements, proportions, and earlier lifecasting
Lifecasting is the process of creating a three-dimensional copy of a living human body, through the use of molding and casting techniques.
The British Museum commissioned Marc Quinn in 2008 to make a life-size sculpture of the model Kate Moss, made entirely of cast gold. The resulting work, also in the yoga position of ''Sphinx'' and modeled from ''Sphinx'', was named ''Siren (statue), Siren''. It was placed in a show in the museum's Nereid Gallery near the statue of the bathing Aphrodite. While some say the statue is the largest gold sculpture created since the ancient Egyptian era, the claim cannot be verified.
Related statue: ''Siren''
The British Museum commissioned Marc Quinn in 2008 to make a life-size sculpture of the model Kate Moss, made entirely of cast gold. The resulting work, also in the yoga position of ''Sphinx'' and modeled from ''Sphinx'', was named ''Siren (statue), Siren''. It was placed in a show in the museum's Nereid Gallery near the statue of the bathing Aphrodite. While some say the statue is the largest gold sculpture created since the ancient Egyptian era, the claim cannot be verified.
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* * {{Refend Bronze sculptures 2006 sculptures Sculptures by Marc Quinn