Thu, 28 August 2008 03:29:35 ET
Solid gold sculpture of Kate Moss, entitled Siren, has reportedly been unveiled in the British Museum on Thursday, August 28.
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Kate Moss has been immortalized in bronze, but getting her figure immortalized in a gold statue is different thing. The 34-year-old beauty got the golden touch as she has been sculpted in gold. It's said to be the largest gold statue to be made in the world since the time of Ancient Egypt.
According to the Telegraph, Kate's gold statue, entitled Siren, is being unveiled in the British Museum on Thursday, August 28. The 50kg statue, worth 1.5 million pounds, is the work of artist Marc Quinn. Siren will be displayed in the Nereid Gallery of the British Museum, alongside other statues such as Crouching Venus, a Hellenistic model of Venus surprised while bathing.
Quinn has revealed the reason in choosing Kate as a subject of his work, insisting that the model has the ideal beauty of the moment. "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 artist said.
It's not the first time Quinn chose Kate as the subject of his work. The London-born artist previously created Sphinx, a white-painted bronze sculpture of the fashion icon in a contorted yoga pose.
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