The Art of Reinvention

The Square Show

The Channel 4 bus tours are a customised exploration of London, a twist on the classic sightseeing experience. Artists, including Gavin Turk, whose tour was on 28/6, gave their own tailor made tours of the city. Turks tour was of graffiti and lesser known heritage plaques.

Blue Plaque Route (part of the Channel 4 architecture week bus tours)

The Channel 4 bus tours are a customised exploration of London, a twist on the classic sightseeing experience. Artists, including Gavin Turk, whose tour was on 28/6, gave their own tailor made tours of the city. Turks tour was of graffiti and lesser known heritage plaques.

Independence

Et in Arcadia Eggo was an exhibition by Gavin Turk at the New Art Centre, Roche Court featuring some of the artist’s iconic sculptural works.

Inspired by Roche Court's traditional Arcadian landscape the mythological heroine, Ariadne, was given the Turk treatment. Opulent swathes of drapery, instead the sleeping figure of Ariadne was presented shown in a sleeping bag. 
 
Turk's fascination with the cycle of birth, life and death was illustrated by the installation of Oeuvre, a sculpture of a giant egg within the park’s grounds. The commonplace and domestic egg sitting in a natural open-air environment was made both comic and surreal by its sheer size. 
 
The exhibition challenged classical notions of perspective, asking us to consider, once again, how we look at the world and how we fit into it.

et in arcadia eggo

Et in Arcadia Eggo was an exhibition by Gavin Turk at the New Art Centre, Roche Court featuring some of the artist’s iconic sculptural works.

Et in Arcadia Eggo

Gavin Turk In The House

In 2003, Contemporary Fine Arts welcomed Gavin Turk for his first solo exhibition in Berlin with Spare Change.

Gavin Turk's multifaceted body of work is characterised by a playful approach to

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the concept of art and its representative objects. Painted bronze trompe l’oeils of a cardboard box and garbage bag question, as it were, our perception of banal everyday objects as well as the relationship between high and low culture, the valuable and the worthless, the representative and the banal.

A shabby sleeping bag, in its objecthood, initially recalls the meagre shelter of the homeless. Only in the knowledge of the deception - this object is also cast in bronze - and the contextual rapture of a "street aesthetic" into an "exhibition aesthetic" does the object appear to the viewer in its existential dimension.

Spare Change

In 2003, Contemporary Fine Arts welcomed Gavin Turk for his first solo exhibition in Berlin with Spare Change. Gavin Turk's multifaceted body of work is characterised by a playful approach to Courtesy of Live Stock Market Ltd. & Gavin Turk