Gavin Turk's first solo show in Korea 
18th November - 12th December 2010 Park Ryu Sook Gallery 
 
Be-Head is a group exhibition, including Gavin Turk, that revolves around the use of the head in art. The Be-Head artists have seemingly all walked the long corridors of&nbsp;museums flanked by exquisitely executed portrait busts of stylised&nbsp;Egyptian rulers, Roman emperors, kings, magnificent ladies, Romantic&nbsp;heroes. The Be-Head artists confront the genre of the portrait head&nbsp;on:&nbsp; they approach the head not so much as part of an individual but&nbsp;as part of humanity.&nbsp; Where there is a sitter, his or her&nbsp;individuality is overwhelmed by the process of painting, casting or&nbsp;collaborating in a performance portrait.&nbsp; Others work only from the&nbsp;imagination, others reinterpret (mock, even) the great tradition of&nbsp;portraiture by using unusual, low materials like brick or plaster or&nbsp;dough.&nbsp; Where the noble bronze is used, it does not conform to the&nbsp;‘traditional’ scale.&nbsp; It is made minute, almost insignificant and&nbsp;reproduced. Ultimately, there is a refreshing absence of anxiety or violence, a&nbsp;vitality in the mixture of classical and contemporary sources and a&nbsp;immense physical and mental investment in the process of representing&nbsp;the quintessence of the human condition.&nbsp;

Something Like This (1)

Gavin Turk's first solo show in Korea 18th November - 12th December 2010 Park Ryu Sook Gallery

Something Like This

December 2010/January 2011 I8 Gallery, Iceland

Gavin will be involved in a group exhibition at the I8 Gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland in December 2010/January 2011.&nbsp;

The Winter Show  (1)

December 2010/January 2011 I8 Gallery, Iceland Gavin will be involved in a group exhibition at the I8 Gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland in December 2010/January 2011. 

The Winter Show 

London 11th October

Phillips de Pury &amp; Company is pleased to host a charity auction in conjunction with Tatler magazine and Hamish McAlpine on the 11th of October to raise awareness and funds for the Bhopal Medical Appeal.

25 of the world’s most important artists, including Gavin Turk, have all decorated a traditional water carrying pot which will be auctioned off by Simon de Pury on the 11th of October at Phillips de Pury &amp; Company in London. Profits will go to the Sambhavna Clinic, an award-winning clinic which provides healthcare and support for the Bhopal victims and the surrounding communities. For information on the artists and pots, please visit&nbsp;<a href="http://www.artnet.com/bhopal.html" target="_blank">Artnet</a> .

London 11th October Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to host a charity auction in conjunction with Tatler magazine and Hamish McAlpine on the 11th of October to raise awareness and funds for the Bhopal Medical Appeal.

Phillips de Pury Bhopal Medical Appeal

Regents Park 
London

13th - 17th October 12 noon to 3pm daily <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-123" src="http://gavinturk.com/news/wp-content/uploads/bikes.tif" title="bikes" />

Taking place in the Sculpture park at the Freize art fair will be Gavin&nbsp;Turk's 'Les Bikes de Bois Rond' presented&nbsp;by&nbsp;Galerie Krinzinger and&nbsp;Almine Rech Gallery.

Regents Park London 13th - 17th October 12 noon to 3pm daily Taking place in the Sculpture park at the Freize art fair will be Gavin Turk's 'Les Bikes de Bois Rond' presented by Galerie Krinzinger and Almine Rech Gallery.

Les Bikes de Bois Rond at Frieze Art Fair

The Saatchi Gallery London 
7 - 9 October &nbsp;

We Are Not Witches is an exhibition and auction of artworks which has been organised to raise money on behalf of Stepping Stones Nigeria.

We Are Not Witches (1)

The Saatchi Gallery London 7 - 9 October   We Are Not Witches is an exhibition and auction of artworks which has been organised to raise money on behalf of Stepping Stones Nigeria.

We Are Not Witches

5 November &nbsp;

A solo exhibition of 72 life like clay busts of Gavin Turk that have been manipulated at ‘The Bust Party’, an interactive performance held at Turk’s Studio earlier this year.

Galerie Almine Rech Paris France

5 November   A solo exhibition of 72 life like clay busts of Gavin Turk that have been manipulated at ‘The Bust Party’, an interactive performance held at Turk’s Studio earlier this year.

En Face

Art Connexion Lille 
15 September – 9 October 
(Vernissage 2 October)

‘Les Bikes de Bois Rond’ were commissioned by Commissions East as part of the Fleet project and have been used for two bicycle rides on the Essex and Suffolk coasts on 3 and 17 July 2010 and two exhibitions at Landguard Fort, Felixstowe, 3 – 17 July and St Mary’s at the Quay, Ipswich, 22 – 28 August 2010. The bikes were commissioned by Commissions East and designed and produced by Gavin Turk in response to ‘Barre de Bois Rond’, the work of Polish artist Andre Cadere. Cadere’s transportable wooden staff ‘Barre de Bois Rond‘ consists of 21 painted wood segments, was one of the exhibited artworks selected by Gavin from the FRAC Collection, Nord-Pas de Calais. The exhibition, entitled ‘Bun Voyagi’, after the words printed on Gavin’s battered embarkation token when travelling to Calais, opened at the Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich 17 July – 28 August 2010.&nbsp; One of the bikes was displayed as part of the exhibition.