Marc Quinn's freak show
Ben Luke, Evening Standard 06.05.10
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23831125-marc-quinns-freak-show.doA marble sculpture of a man in boxer shorts, about twice human scale, stands tall at the centre of White Cube's Hoxton Square headquarters. A quiet, ruminative smile emanates from his bearded face. He's an ordinary young man but for one startling fact — he is pregnant. Meet Thomas Beatie, formerly a woman, Tracy Lagondino, who has already given birth twice and will do so again later this year.
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Beatie is one of a number of people who have altered their faces and bodies drastically through surgery and hormonal treatment and form the spectacular cast for the latest sculptures by Marc Quinn, the one-time YBA who brought you the self-portrait formed from his own blood and the vast marble sculpture of Alison Lapper, a pregnant sufferer of a congenital disorder not unlike thalidomide, on the fourth plinth.
