Painted bronze

Painted Bronze

PETE

ZXOSA

Glass and mixed media

Waste

Sculpture

PBOLA

The artist has referred to this work as part of a series of work known as the ‘Prometheus Series’, referring to this most elusive, heroic and abject of the Greek myths. Prometheus was the god who gave Humans the gift of fire that he stole from Mount Olympus to give to his Shelleyan Protégées.  For the well meaning and philanthropic opening of this particular Pandora’s box our hero was punished by the most gruesome of mortal punishments on an immortal daily basis. On first glance the work appears, like a gemstone, tantalizing the intellect like the visual illusions of Larry Bell or Dan Graham. But through the diachronic shimmer and reflections immerge a carefully placed tableaux: the detritus of our manic consumer age. These collections of the rusted, deteriorated evidence of our contemporary world have a totem like aura, trapped as they are behind glass. The icons of our secular age now worshiped like the religious relics of the Catholics, the shrines of the Greco-Romans or the talismans and totems of the indigenous ancients. Gavin Turk, June 2017

ANOMB

The artist has referred to this work as part of a series of work known as the ‘Prometheus Series’, referring to this most elusive, heroic and abject of the Greek myths. Prometheus was the god who gave Humans the gift of fire that he stole from Mount Olympus to give to his Shelleyan Protégées.  For the well meaning and philanthropic opening of this particular Pandora’s box our hero was punished by the most gruesome of mortal punishments on an immortal daily basis. On first glance the work appears, like a gemstone, tantalizing the intellect like the visual illusions of Larry Bell or Dan Graham. But through the diachronic shimmer and reflections immerge a carefully placed tableaux: the detritus of our manic consumer age. These collections of the rusted, deteriorated evidence of our contemporary world have a totem like aura, trapped as they are behind glass. The icons of our secular age now worshiped like the religious relics of the Catholics, the shrines of the Greco-Romans or the talismans and totems of the indigenous ancients. Gavin Turk, June 2017

The artist has referred to this work as part of a series of work known as the ‘Prometheus Series’, referring to this most elusive, heroic and abject of the Greek myths.

Red Beuys (Wrapped Waste)

Tr&auml;umen

Gicleé print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag

Träumen

PSION

Rubbish

Installation info: Hang on wall out of direct sunlight and changes in temperature and moisture.

White Square after Malevich

Found canvas mounted on linen

Installation info: Hang on wall out of direct sunlight and changes in temperature and moisture.

Painting

"The lone cube sits under a light - the surface covered in an anemone of organic folds and wrinkles. A powerful and iconic motorised machine has been crushed like paper into a perfect Modernist cube. This cuboid was once a Cultural icon – a symbol of race and class. White-Van-Man’s steed has been reduced to a single abstract expressionist form. The powerful logistics tool of consumerism now forlornly and whimsically, resting under it’s spotlight." Gavin Turk, 2015

White Transit Van Compression

Crushed Transit van

"The lone cube sits under a light - the surface covered in an anemone of organic folds and wrinkles. A powerful and iconic motorised machine has been crushed like paper into a perfect Modernist cube.  This cuboid was once a Cultural icon – a symbol of race and class. White-Van-Man’s steed has been reduced to a single abstract expressionist form. The powerful logistics tool of consumerism now forlornly and whimsically, resting under it’s spotlight." Gavin Turk, 2015

"The lone cube sits under a light - the surface covered in an anemone of organic folds and wrinkles. A powerful and iconic motorised machine has been crushed like paper into a perfect Modernist cube. This cuboid was once a Cultural icon – a symbol of race and class. White-Van-Man’s steed has been reduced to a single abstract expressionist form. The powerful logistics tool of consumerism now forlornly and whimsically, resting under it’s spotlight." Gavin Turk, 2015

William Morris

Matt Sepia print

Masks

Self-Portrait

Faces

Photographic Work

Wittgenstein Roses

Life size sculpture of Ludwig Wittgenstein standing

[ξ, N(ξ)]’(η) (= [η, ξ, N(ξ)])

Waxwork sculpture

Life size sculpture of Ludwig Wittgenstein standing

Installation

The artist has referred to this work as part of a series of work known as the ‘Prometheus Series’, referring to this most elusive, heroic and abject of the Greek myths. Prometheus was the god who gave Humans the gift of fire that he stole from Mount Olympus to give to his Shelleyan Protégées.  For the well meaning and philanthropic opening of this particular Pandora’s box our hero was punished by the most gruesome of mortal punishments on an immortal daily basis. On first glance the work appears, like a gemstone, tantalising the intellect like the visual illusions of Larry Bell or Dan Graham. But through the diachronic shimmer and reflections emerge a carefully placed tableaux: the detritus of our manic consumer age. These collections of the rusted, deteriorated evidence of our contemporary world have a totem like aura, trapped as they are behind glass. The icons of our secular age now worshipped like the religious relics of the Catholics, the shrines of the Greco-Romans or the talismans and totems of the indigenous ancients. Gavin Turk, June 2017

TROCX

The artist has referred to this work as part of a series of work known as the ‘Prometheus Series’, referring to this most elusive, heroic and abject of the Greek myths. Prometheus was the god who gave Humans the gift of fire that he stole from Mount Olympus to give to his Shelleyan Protégées.  For the well meaning and philanthropic opening of this particular Pandora’s box our hero was punished by the most gruesome of mortal punishments on an immortal daily basis. On first glance the work appears, like a gemstone, tantalising the intellect like the visual illusions of Larry Bell or Dan Graham. But through the diachronic shimmer and reflections emerge a carefully placed tableaux: the detritus of our manic consumer age. These collections of the rusted, deteriorated evidence of our contemporary world have a totem like aura, trapped as they are behind glass. The icons of our secular age now worshipped like the religious relics of the Catholics, the shrines of the Greco-Romans or the talismans and totems of the indigenous ancients. Gavin Turk, June 2017

Installation info: Instructions in documents tab and also in Archive "Swinging slowly in the centre of the gallery this giant recycling plaything feels like a toy from the monkey enclosure at the zoo or from a children’s playground. Alternatively if you look from the corner of your eye you will see more geometric circles and moving abstract forms moving harmoniously through space. Then again perhaps you will be eerily reminded of the strange fruit of Alabama or even more pertinently the rubber necklaces of the African Cape." Gavin Turk, 2015

Tyre Mobile

Tyres, scaffold poles and wire

Installation info: Instructions in documents tab and also in Archive"Swinging slowly in the centre of the gallery this giant recycling plaything feels like a toy from the monkey enclosure at the zoo or from a children’s playground. Alternatively if you look from the corner of your eye you will see more geometric circles and moving abstract forms moving harmoniously through space. Then again perhaps you will be eerily reminded of the strange fruit of Alabama or even more pertinently the rubber necklaces of the African Cape." Gavin Turk, 2015

Installation info: Instructions in documents tab and also in Archive "Swinging slowly in the centre of the gallery this giant recycling plaything feels like a toy from the monkey enclosure at the zoo or from a children’s playground. Alternatively if you look from the corner of your eye you will see more geometric circles and moving abstract forms moving harmoniously through space. Then again perhaps you will be eerily reminded of the strange fruit of Alabama or even more pertinently the rubber necklaces of the African Cape." Gavin Turk, 2015

Emmanuel Radnitzky

Bromide (Ilford warm) print

Now, the neon sculpture by artist Gavin Turk, positioned upon the facade of Somerset House, displays the number 7,315,694,298 - the estimated population of the world at 6pm of Tuesday 17 March 2015, the moment of its first illumination. &nbsp; Turk describes the artwork as “a symbolic threshold, inviting visitors to transcend through a fixed point in time” as they pass underneath it to enter Somerset House’s New Wing, a testimony to “each individual’s solitude, power, and transient existence as part of an unimaginably expansive whole.”

Red neon mounted on a box behind perspex

Now, the neon sculpture by artist Gavin Turk, positioned upon the facade of Somerset House, displays the number 7,315,694,298 - the estimated population of the world at 6pm of Tuesday 17 March 2015, the moment of its first illumination. Turk describes the artwork as “a symbolic threshold, inviting visitors to transcend through a fixed point in time” as they pass underneath it to enter Somerset House’s New Wing, a testimony to “each individual’s solitude, power, and transient existence as part of an unimaginably expansive whole.”

Signs

Now, the neon sculpture by artist Gavin Turk, positioned upon the facade of Somerset House, displays the number 7,315,694,298 - the estimated population of the world at 6pm of Tuesday 17 March 2015, the moment of its first illumination.   Turk describes the artwork as “a symbolic threshold, inviting visitors to transcend through a fixed point in time” as they pass underneath it to enter Somerset House’s New Wing, a testimony to “each individual’s solitude, power, and transient existence as part of an unimaginably expansive whole.”

The Original Egg Ball

6ft Bronze

"The mobile as a kinetic sculpture personifying movement and transport is now pendulous and slowly swaying and turning. The exhaust pipes from vehicles filled with the pure air of the gallery where once they transported the choking fumes from the combustion engine. The internal organ made external: discarded, denatured and rusted." Gavin Turk, 2015

Exhaust Mobile

Exhaust pipes and wire

Exhaust

Paul Cézanne

Bromide (Ilford cold tone) print

Installation info: Surface very susceptible to marking.  Handle only with gloves and take great care not to touch.  To dust use compressed air or a new microfibre cloth and press only lightly.A black painting hangs on a wall, typed across its centre are the words ‘A Vision’ also in black; the words are readable through a radiating exterior white glow which gives the impression of the words being made of a masked light.The words are written in American Typewriter typeface, famed for its use in the ‘I ♥ NY’ logo and reminiscent of text works by Joseph Kosuth. This illuminated ‘sign’ designates the act of being able to see and read while simultaneously being something seen and read. ‘A Vision’ is the context and the text. Ultimately the words refer to a category that represents a kind of future, a dream like state in which destiny or a distant reality is imagined.Gavin Turk

A Vision

Silkscreen ink and metallic paint on canvas

Installation info: Surface very susceptible to marking. Handle only with gloves and take great care not to touch. To dust use compressed air or a new microfibre cloth and press only lightly.A black painting hangs on a wall, typed across its centre are the words ‘A Vision’ also in black; the words are readable through a radiating exterior white glow which gives the impression of the words being made of a masked light.The words are written in American Typewriter typeface, famed for its use in the ‘I ♥ NY’ logo and reminiscent of text works by Joseph Kosuth. This illuminated ‘sign’ designates the act of being able to see and read while simultaneously being something seen and read. ‘A Vision’ is the context and the text. Ultimately the words refer to a category that represents a kind of future, a dream like state in which destiny or a distant reality is imagined.Gavin Turk

Silkscreen

Installation info: Surface very susceptible to marking. Handle only with gloves and take great care not to touch. To dust use compressed air or a new microfibre cloth and press only lightly. A black painting hangs on a wall, typed across its centre are the words ‘A Vision’ also in black; the words are readable through a radiating exterior white glow which gives the impression of the words being made of a masked light. The words are written in American Typewriter typeface, famed for its use in the ‘I ♥ NY’ logo and reminiscent of text works by Joseph Kosuth.

The Other

Animated neon

Henri Matisse

Art 300 print

Installation info: Slide on to spigget on to plinth top. This will ensure the work cannot be pushed on to ground accidentally. Rock Sculpture

Philosopher's Stone

Installation info: Slide on to spigget on to plinth top. This will ensure the work cannot be pushed on to ground accidentally.Rock Sculpture

Installation info: Slide on to spigget on to plinth top. This will ensure the work cannot be pushed on to ground accidentally. Rock Sculpture

A Vision in Blue

Neon with black painted front mounted on white wall

The Rock of Egg

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Eggs

An appropriation of Lucio Fontana's "Fine di Dio" (The End of God), this egg-shaped painting is dramatically perforated, its rich painterly surface vandalized as Gavin Turk's initials are subtly cast by the punctured holes, revealing the empty space behind the canvas whilst remitting the painting to a three-dimensional object. The egg, as a heavily charged archetypal sign brings-up notions of beginning and end, the alpha and omega of all things, a closed loop, that which is before speech and thought, the inaccessible unknown. The fleshy quality of the paint surrounding the punctures on the canvas allude to Jesus Christ's stigmata. Titled "Holy Egg", this series of works plays with notions of the authenticity of art as well as the aura of the artwork, alluding to the religious symbolism associated with the egg as well as to a long-standing historical relationship between art and religion, iconography and iconoclasm.

Holy Egg (Blue)

Diamond dust and acrylic paint on canvas

Acrylic paint and diamond dust on canvas

An appropriation of Lucio Fontana's "Fine di Dio" (The End of God), this egg-shaped painting is dramatically perforated, its rich painterly surface vandalized as Gavin Turk's initials are subtly cast by the punctured holes, revealing the empty space behind the canvas whilst remitting the painting to a three-dimensional object. The egg, as a heavily charged archetypal sign brings-up notions of beginning and end, the alpha and omega of all things, a closed loop, that which is before speech and thought, the inaccessible unknown. The fleshy quality of the paint surrounding the punctures on the canvas allude to Jesus Christ's stigmata. Titled "Holy Egg", this series of works plays with notions of the authenticity of art as well as the aura of the artwork, alluding to the religious symbolism associated with the egg as well as to a long-standing historical relationship between art and religion, iconography and iconoclasm.

Alchemy

An appropriation of Lucio Fontana's "Fine di Dio" (The End of God), this egg-shaped painting is dramatically perforated, its rich painterly surface vandalized as Gavin Turk's initials are subtly cast by the punctured holes, revealing the empty space behind the canvas whilst remitting the painting to a three-dimensional object. The egg, as a heavily charged archetypal sign brings-up notions of beginning and end, the alpha and omega of all things, a closed loop, that which is before speech and thought, the inaccessible unknown.

PETE

ZXOSA

PBOLA

ANOMB

Red Beuys (Wrapped Waste)

Träumen

PSION

PBOLA

PETE

White Square after Malevich

White Transit Van Compression

William Morris

Wittgenstein Roses

[ξ, N(ξ)]’(η) (= [η, ξ, N(ξ)])

TROCX

Tyre Mobile

Emmanuel Radnitzky

Now

The Original Egg Ball

Exhaust Mobile

Paul Cézanne

A Vision

The Other

Henri Matisse

Philosopher's Stone

A Vision in Blue

The Rock of Egg

Holy Egg (Blue)

PSION (Gold and Blue)

A Vision in Red