Spazzatura di Pistoletto 

Screenprint on mirror finish stainless steel

Bin Bags

Rubbish

Silkscreen

American Bag

Painted bronze

Consume

Waste

Painted Bronze

Refuse

A single black bin bag print on a white background. Inspired by Yves Klein's Anthropometric paintings.

Bag Body 

Diamond dust and acrylic paint on canvas

Acrylic paint and diamond dust on canvas

Klein

A single black bin bag print on a white background. Inspired by Yves Klein's Anthropometric paintings.

A single black bin bag print seen from top, on a white background, inspired by Yves Klein's Anthropometric paintings

Monochrome Bag

A single black bin bag print seen from top, on a white background, inspired by Yves Klein's Anthropometric paintings

A colour drawing of a black bin bag.

Psychedelic Bag

Coloured ink on paper

Work on paper

A coloured ink painting of a bin bag.

Colourful Waste

Five black bin bags printed on a white background. Inspired by Yves Klein's Anthropometric paintings.

Bags Begin to Fly

Five black bin bags printed on a white background. Inspired by Yves Klein's Anthropometric paintings.

A colour drawing of a black bin bag.

Mucky Brass

Trash

Trompe L'oeil

Created in 2004, Tip exemplifies Gavin Turk’s ongoing investigation into authenticity within the art object. Using bronze, the material of Classical Greek sculpture, Turk has cast a rubbish bin bag seemingly stuffed full of unrecyclable matter. Made to look more real than reality, Tip is a true trompe l’oeil, an artistic technique that creates the illusion of space to challenge the divide between art and life. As Turk explains, ‘I am busy making things that are obviously not what they are’ in order to question what belongs within the gallery space (G. Turk quoted in D. Leader, ‘Gavin Turk: the analyst will unmask you now’, The Guardian, November 16, 2016). Illusion lets the artist comment on production, identity and capitalist structures, and he uses waste to critique consumption patterns, believing that what one discards is as insightful as what one keeps; detritus, for Turk, is a person’s anti-portrait and another way of staging the self. Turk was part of the Young British Artists who inaugurated a new era of British art in the 1990s, and he was included in Sensation, the provocative survey exhibition of YBA art held at the Royal Academy, London. 

Created in 2004, Tip exemplifies Gavin Turk’s ongoing investigation into authenticity within the art object. Using bronze, the material of Classical Greek sculpture, Turk has cast a rubbish bin bag seemingly stuffed full of unrecyclable matter. Made to look more real than reality, Tip is a true trompe l’oeil, an artistic technique that creates the illusion of space to challenge the divide between art and life. As Turk explains, ‘I am busy making things that are obviously not what they are’ in order to question what belongs within the gallery space (G. Turk quoted in D.

A bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.A bag full of discarded products, unrecycled organic matter thrown in with the by-products of our wasteful consumerist lifestyles. This rubbish is encapsulated in the formal roundness of this classic trompe l’œuil artwork. We are defined by what we throw away and conversely we are deconstructed by what we choose to display in our hallowed museum halls.

Bag (10)

A bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.A bag full of discarded products, unrecycled organic matter thrown in with the by-products of our wasteful consumerist lifestyles. This rubbish is encapsulated in the formal roundness of this classic trompe l’œuil artwork. We are defined by what we throw away and conversely we are deconstructed by what we choose to display in our hallowed museum halls.

Installation info: place in a suitable position on the floorA bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.

Bag (11)

Installation info: place in a suitable position on the floorA bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.

Installation info: place in a suitable position on the floorBronze cast of a full, rounded rubbish bag painted to look real.

Bag (12)

Installation info: place in a suitable position on the floorBronze cast of a full, rounded rubbish bag painted to look real.

Bag (7)

Bag (8)

Bag (9)

A bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.A bag full of discarded products, unrecycled organic matter thrown in with the by-products of our wasteful consumerist lifestyles. This rubbish is encapsulated in the formal roundness of this classic trompe l&rsquo;&oelig;uil artwork. We are defined by what we throw away and conversely we are deconstructed by what we choose to display in our hallowed museum halls.

Sculpture

Fourteen framed water colours of rubbish bags, one made for every day of the week for two weeks. Each painting is individually dated along the bottom.

Two weeks worth

Fourteen framed watercolours on paper

Domestic

Fourteen framed water colours of rubbish bags, one made for every day of the week for two weeks. Each painting is individually dated along the bottom.

Bag (2)

Bag (3)

Bag (4)

Bag (5)

Bag (6)

Installation info: place in a suitable position on the floorA bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.A bag full of discarded products, unrecycled organic matter thrown in with the by-products of our wasteful consumerist lifestyles. This rubbish is encapsulated in the formal roundness of this classic trompe l’œuil artwork. We are defined by what we throw away and conversely we are deconstructed by what we choose to display in our hallowed museum halls.

Installation info: place in a suitable position on the floorA bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.A bag full of discarded products, unrecycled organic matter thrown in with the by-products of our wasteful consumerist lifestyles. This rubbish is encapsulated in the formal roundness of this classic trompe l’œuil artwork. We are defined by what we throw away and conversely we are deconstructed by what we choose to display in our hallowed museum halls.