Gavin Turk & Sons (title TBC)

Wood, screws, paint.

Painting

Fright Wig Pink and Black on Yellow

Silkscreen ink and metallic paint on canvas

Identity

Self-Portrait

Warhol

Masks

Faces

Silkscreen

A single clay slip cast of the artist manipulated, fired and painted from the body of work En Face

Varing Ktu

Varnished clay

Sculpture

A single clay slip cast of the artist manipulated, fired and painted from the body of work En Face

Bronze cast of a discarded fast food chip tray painted to look as real as possible.Finding beauty in the trashy and ugly, Turk gives the polystyrene used chip tray &ndash; alongside with its cousin the burger tray &ndash; a grandiose makeover, transforming rubbish into art in the form of a painted bronze sculpture. The remains of a traditional English dish and cheap street food for the masses, Turk&rsquo;s chip trays become elegiac and nostalgic relics not just of a hearty meal but a set of cultural values which appear to be rapidly vanishing.

Chip Butty

Painted bronze

Waste

Food

Bronze cast of a discarded fast food chip tray painted to look as real as possible.Finding beauty in the trashy and ugly, Turk gives the polystyrene used chip tray – alongside with its cousin the burger tray – a grandiose makeover, transforming rubbish into art in the form of a painted bronze sculpture. The remains of a traditional English dish and cheap street food for the masses, Turk’s chip trays become elegiac and nostalgic relics not just of a hearty meal but a set of cultural values which appear to be rapidly vanishing.

Varing Tk U

Disaster series painting featuring a Transit Van in black on red in multiple print

Transit Disaster Red

Vehicles

Transit

Disaster series painting featuring a Transit Van in black on red in multiple print

Viknag Rut

Disaster series painting featuring a Transit Van in black on orange in multiple print

Transit Disaster Orange

Disaster series painting featuring a Transit Van in black on orange in multiple print

Viktu Rang

Life scale rusty nail made in bronze appearing to have been hit in the ground at an angle

Small Nail 

Patinated bronze

Nail

Life scale rusty nail made in bronze appearing to have been hit in the ground at an angle

Rubbing of a pavement section on paperA reference to the Situationist slogan: &ldquo;Beneath the streets, a beach!&rdquo; which was both a poetic call to anarchy but also a literal reference to the sand beneath the pavements where the French activists rioted, The Beach sees the street transformed into a site of revolution and utopia, protest and pleasure, while the graininess of the rubbing also indicates the texture and appearance of actual sand. But if The Beach is a punk politization of the pavement on the one hand, on the other, it reduces this potent symbol of change to the tourist activity of frottage &ndash; brass rubbings of saints&rsquo; graves found in cathedrals made with crayon &ndash; in which The Beach also appears as a crude and ultimately impotent reproduction of a dusty relic.

The Beach

Graphite on paper

Work on paper

Ving Ruktar

Appropriation

Robert Indiana parody spelling TURK across canvas in black on white

Turk Love Black on White

Robert Indiana parody spelling TURK across canvas in black on white

Vitking RA

Purple Fright Wig

Painting of an eye diagram on bronze background.

The Observer

Eyes

Painting of an eye diagram on bronze background.

Viktun Gar

Water Biscuit

Glass, water biscuit

Mixed Media

Gunk Rativ

Vitkun Arg

Gutirk Van

Metal bike frame adapted with wooden beads using colours from Andre Cadere's 'Barres De Bois Rond' sculptures

Le Bike de Bois Rond (yellow, red, blue)

Bicycle, timber, enamel paint

Metal bike frame adapted with wooden beads using colours from Andre Cadere's 'Barres De Bois Rond' sculptures

Vaint Grunk

Varnished clay and glass

A print of the artist as Warhol in black on a vivd red background

Fright Wig Red on Paper

Acrylic silkscreen on paper

A print of the artist as Warhol in black on a vivd red background

Van Rug Kit

A print of the artist as Warhol in black on a purple background

Fright Wig Purple on Paper

A print of the artist as Warhol in black on a purple background

a work inspired by Piero Manzoni's 'Artists shit'

Ordure

rusted tin can

Readymade

Rubbish

Cans

Ready Made

Rauschenberg Pots

The Pedigree of Man

Embroidery

Etching

Film

Found Object

Glass

Installation

Object Trouvé

Painted Bronze

Photographic Work

Public Sculpture

Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels

Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

David Nolan Gallery, New York

Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Maruani Mercier, Brussels & Knokke

Paul Stolper, London

Reflex, Amsterdam

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