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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on January 24, 2008, 01:57:36 PM
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Marc Quinn last amazed the public by placing a giant pregnant disabled woman on the Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square.
Now he is looking at pregnancy from the inside with nine large sculptures depicting the development of a foetus from 22 days to just before birth.
They have been carved in a pink marble whose mottling conveys the fine veins below the growing child's skin. They go on display at the White Cube Mason's Yard gallery, St James's, tomorrow in Quinn's first exhibition in the capital since 2005.
Quinn was inspired partly by Slaves, sculptures by the Renaissance master Michelangelo, in which bodies almost fight their way out of rough-hewn rock.
But the five-ton sculptures, made of marble quarried from the Spanish-Portuguese border, were also prompted by witnessing the way viewers reacted with repulsion to Alison Lapper, the Trafalgar Square model, and to his series of figurative sculptures depicting people missing arms and legs.
Yet everyone had once been a foetus just like these curious-looking embryos, he said, as he put the finishing touches to the show.
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(http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01/03_babyES_415x275.jpg)link (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23433899-details/The+womb+with+a+view/article.do)
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WTF is that thing to her left, my right?
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WTF is that thing to her left, my right?
Another fetus in a different stage of development.
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WTF is that thing to her left, my right?
An unborn baby. They really do look like aliens at a certain point, my daughter looked like Skelotor from He-Man in a sonogram. It freaked me out but now she is a beautiful 10 month old.
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WTF is that thing to her left, my right?
Alien baby.
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WTF is that thing to her left, my right?
An unborn baby. They really do look like aliens at a certain point, my daughter looked like Skelotor from He-Man in a sonogram. It freaked me out but now she is a beautiful 10 month old.
(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/asdf2231/smileys%20and%20fun/bitchplease6kk.png)
I've been waiting to use that pic forever!!!! ;)
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WTF is that thing to her left, my right?
An unborn baby. They really do look like aliens at a certain point, my daughter looked like Skelotor from He-Man in a sonogram. It freaked me out but now she is a beautiful 10 month old.
(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/asdf2231/smileys%20and%20fun/bitchplease6kk.png)
I've been waiting to use that pic forever!!!! ;)
I got that one too. LOL!