"It's the whack of testosterone that makes the clitoris turn into a penis. After all, every embryo starts out female. His transsexuals also ask basic biological questions, he says. So the frozen garden led to his recent acid-trip garden paintings, and the sculptures of disabled people led to those we are looking at today. One project tends to evolve into another. What are we? What can we become? What is natural and unnatural? In a later project, he created a cryogenically frozen garden from flowers that in the natural world could never grow together. His father was a scientist, and Quinn combined art and science to ask existential questions. Like much of the art produced by his generation, it dealt with time and degeneration – keep it at the wrong temperature and it melts into its original form. It was grotesque and gorgeous and, as so often in his work, turned the world inside out. Quinn established himself in Charles Saatchi's Sensation show with Self, a frozen bust of his head made from 10 pints of his own blood. "What's interesting is that the scale puts us in a child-adult relationship to it. "Recreating the movement of fabric in marble is one of the classic sculptural themes." He looks up towards Beatie's pants as we speak. "Sculpture's all about drapery, isn't it?" Quinn says. More than anything, it's Beatie's pants that make this such an intimate and human work – the creases, the pulls in the crotch, the way one leg rides up. Which makes even weirder the fact that the bloke with the beard is pregnant. The David reference is deliberate – it's not simply the scale, but the sense of innocence and purity. The huge white marble sculpture of him is astonishing: George Michael meets Michelangelo's David. But he kept his female reproductive organs and became pregnant in 2007 by artificial insemination. Beatie was born Tracy LaGondino and underwent a sexual reassignment procedure in order to become a man. All rebuilt themselves in different ways. The movie was a first in the pornography world.Īlongside Buck and Allanah are sculptures of the Catman, actor Pamela Anderson, Michael Jackson, Thomas Beatie (better known as the pregnant man) and adult "breast entertainer" Chelsea Charms. He told the artist about his friend Allanah, who had gone the other way and with whom he had made a film. Buck knew Quinn's work and loved the idea of posing for him. "The world is so weird that you don't have to make things up, you just find things." He discovered Buck Angel on the internet by typing into the search engine the words "plastic surgery" and "transformation". Quinn has always been fascinated by the human body and the dubious concept of normality. So, in the case of models Allanah Starr and Buck Angel, she was originally a he and he was originally a she, and to an extent he is still a he and she is still a she, and that's before we even consider the possibility of a third sex.
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