The new IDEA book is KATE BY MARC . That is Kate Moss by Marc Quinn, of course. A tale of 2006 to 2008, when celebrity gossip ruled and the financial crisis hadn’t yet castrated excess. The former was imperative, the latter was irrelevant to Marc Quinn’s Sphinx and Siren: life-sized-and-then-some sculptures of Kate Moss, the former cast in bronze and painted white, the latter cast in solid gold.
In the middle section of the book, printed on a premium paper stock, are 15 unseen collages of Kate. Quinn pasted Kate’s face onto found images from various print media – chopped up and rearranged contorted bodies in every unnatural pose you can think of. These might have been research or sketches for the sculptures 20 years ago, but today we present them as standalone artworks, nestled in-between the behind-the-scenes documentation and newspaper clippings of the time.
KATE BY MARC
By Marc Quinn
Hand-finished softcover with obi-band
25 x 20cm
128 pages
