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Title: Marc Quinn: Just don't call it a freak show
Post by: Shana A on May 01, 2010, 08:18:04 AM

Marc Quinn: Just don't call it a freak show

With sculptures of the 'pregnant man', a woman with massive, surgically enhanced breasts, Michael Jackson and Pamela Anderson, what is Marc Quinn's latest exhibition all about?

          o Simon Hattenstone
          o The Guardian, Saturday 1 May 2010

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/01/marc-quinn-interview (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/01/marc-quinn-interview)

Marc Quinn stands proudly over his latest sculpture. It's brilliantly detailed, sensual and a little bit rude. A woman is having sex with a man from behind. At first sight, it's a simple conceit, a reversal of traditional gender roles. Only when you look underneath the bronze couple do you realise there's something more going on. The woman has a penis, the man a vagina.