U. Galimberto, I miti del nostro tempo, Milan, 2009 (illustrated on the cover)
Catalogue Essay
“It’s about taking an image, it’s not about Kate Moss as a person. Kate Moss is interesting because she’s someone who has two lives, her real life and the life of her image. It becomes, in a way, very much how divinity is used by religion. You can have a thousand Virgin Marys all over the world, or you can have millions of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. There’s this replication of images of Kate Moss, and to suddenly turn it into an object again – and yet a kind of hollow object, so it’s like a screen – makes the Kate Moss more a portrait of society’s fantasies and myth than about a real person. And that’s why [the Kate Moss work is] quite empty looking in a way. They’re not that realistically modelled – they’re more like an archetype than a portrait bust – and so, again, that’s taking something that’s hovering around in the ether and bringing it back down to earth … it’s about taking this image that, by constant repetition, has almost dematerialized, and then rematerializing it. Sculpture is about materialization of the immaterial.”
Marc Quinn, from an interview filmed in Basel, 2009, published by The Art Newspaper