Buck with cigar
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- Place made
- London
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 166.0 x 70.0 x 43.0 cm
- Credit line
- Gift of Susan Armitage, Candy Bennett, Zoë and Scott Elvish, Edwina Lehmann, Robert Lyons, Pam McKee, Tracey and Michael Whiting through the Art Gallery Foundation and Contemporary Collectors with the assistance of the Roy and Marjory Edwards Bequest Fund 2011
- Accession number
- 20111S1
- Signature and date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Collection area
- British sculptures
- Copyright
- © the artist
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A life-size bronze sculpture of the American entertainer, activist and businessman, Buck Angel, Buck with cigar is a work from the ongoing Body Alteration series, a series in which Mark Quinn canonises subjects who have used plastic surgery or body modification to change their physical form in a process of self-authorship. Buck Angel is transgender, and the work presents him as confident in his body, which does not subscribe to cisgender norms.
Originally associated with the Young British Artists of the 1990s, Marc Quinn is known for his sculptural portraits of celebrities, artists and outsiders, as well as for his self-portraits. His use of traditional sculptural materials operates within a classical tradition and he strategically uses the aesthetic principles of the past to subvert contemporary notions of ideal beauty and body form.
Leigh Robb, Curator of Contemporary Art
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[Book] AGSA 500.