A gallery with it's windows masked out and signs up saying "This exhibition contains adult sexual imagery, not suitable for children" was always going to perk up our interest, and so it was that one dull Sunday afternoon we slipped through the doors and into Marc Quinn's bizarre world. Showing at the
White Cube Gallery in Hoxton Square till 26th June is Marc Quinn's latest solo show. Titled "
Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela and Thomas" the show consists of sculptures and paintings all with an overtly sexual/gender theme. Marc came to fame as part of the YBA generation with his
blood head cast, he's now turned his human casts to "people who've undergone extreme levels of plastic surgery and transformation".
The first thing that caught our eyes were the bronze casts of porn stars
Allanah Starr and
Buck Angel both of whom have gone through surgery to swap sexes but keep their genitals in place. Resulting in the bizarre porno they shot where a butch guy with a vagina gets pounded by a curvy girl with a big cock! Oh my. With giant toy like models of Michael Jackson's head, a giant open mouth and a huge sculpture of
Thomas Beatie, the worlds first pregnant man, things don't get any less surreal as the exhibition goes on. Upstairs Pammy has been multiplied (blimey that's a lot of silicone) and stands flaunting her tattoo's to the pondering art audience, and outside in the square stand two of the most phallic flower sculptures you've ever seen in your life.
The show's really quite beautiful in a rather odd way, the tattoo's cut deep into the shiny bronze figures look amazing, and the bodies cast and on display are really quite intriguing. Alas though, much to our dismay, with Mr Quinn's
art star price tags I don't think there is going to be a lovely sculpture of Allanah and Buck in our front room for some time yet to come.
