We Ain't dED Yet
01 SEPTEMBER 2023 - 17 SEPTEMBER 202310. Gavin Turk
Fire Water
Gold foil, glass bottle and shelf.
This is a unique work.
Produced in 2019.
Sculpture dimensions: 36.2cm x 9.8cm x 7.7cm.
Shelf dimensions: 25cm x 15cm x 13cm.
COA provided by the artist upon acquisition.
PROVENANCE
Artist's Studio, UK, 2019
We ain't dED yet, Gallery 46, London, 2023
ESTIMATE
£8,000 - 12,000
This auction has now ended
Notes
An assisted ready-made, where a piece of gold foil, a crumpled chocolate wrapper is inserted into an empty water bottle, creating an agitprop Molotov cocktail. The title ‘Fire Water’ suggests a strong alcoholic drink that burns the throat.
“In today’s political and environmental climate, it is more important than ever to decouple education and the arms trade, and bring about peace and understanding"- Gavin Turk
http://gavinturk.com
@thisisnotgavinturk
Gavin Turk (b 1967) is a British born, internationally renowned artist, who lives and works in London. He has pioneered many forms of contemporary British sculpture, including the painted bronze, the waxwork, the recycled art-historical icon and the use of rubbish in art. Turk’s installations and sculptures deal with issues of authorship, authenticity and identity. Concerned with the ‘myth’ of the artist and ontological questioning. Turk’s engagement with this modernist, avant-garde debate stretches back to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp. In 1991, the Royal College of Art refused Turk a degree on the basis that his final show, ‘Cave’, consisted of a whitewashed studio space containing only a blue heritage plaque commemorating his presence ‘Gavin Turk worked here 1989-91'. Instantly gaining notoriety through this installation, Turk was spotted by Charles Saatchi and was included in several YBA exhibitions.
Gavin Turk’s work is held within public and private collections worldwide, including but not limited to the TATE, Museum of Modern Art New York, Museum MMK Für Moderne Kunst, Musée Magritte Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
In 2013 Prestel published Turk’s first monograph, showcasing more than two decades of his work and in 2014 Trolley Books published ‘This Is Not A Book About Gavin Turk’ which playfully explores themes associated with the artist’s work via thirty notable contributors.
EDUCATION
1989 -1991 Royal College of Art
1986 -1989 Chelsea School of Art
SELECTED PUBLIC SCULPTURES
2022 Ariadne Wrapped, Painted bronze, Cambridge Station Square, Cambridge
2019 LÂge d’Or, Painted bronze, Fenix Movers Museum, Sculpture International Rotterdam
2018 The Spirit of Painting, Painted aluminium, The Coronet Theatre, Kensington, London
2017 Axis Mundi, Patinated bronze & stainless steel, Paddington Basin, London
2016 L’Âge d’Or, Painted Bronze, Here East, London
2013 Ajar (Highbury), Painted bronze, Highbury, London
2011 Nail, patinated bronze, One New Change, St Paul’s Cathedral, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
KERZE, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London (cat.), 2022
In Search of Ariadne, The Heong Gallery, Cambridge (cat.), 2022
Artist’s Piss, Bateman Street, London, 2021
Eggshibition, Canning Town, London, 2020
En Oeuf, Maruani Mercier, Brussels (cat.), 2019
Letting Go, Reflex Amsterdam (cat.), 2019
White Van Man, IvoryPress, Madrid (cat.), 2018
White Van Man, Paul Stolper Gallery, London, 2018
Gavin Turk Works, Maruani Mercier & Hadida, Paris, France, 2018
God is Gone, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 2018
History of Art, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy (cat.), 2017
Give In, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2017
Who What When Where How and Why, Newport Street Gallery, London (cat.), 2016
GT, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium (cat.), 2016
Petroleum, Baldwin Gallery, USA, 2016
Water Biscuit, The Box, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, 2016
Wittgenstein’s Dream, Freud Museum, London, 2015
A Vision, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 2015
Yard, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, 2015
The Mechanical Turk, Metropole Hotel, Venice, 2015
Gav, Bruchium – Al Forno: Historical Bakery, Venice, 2015
Now, Somerset House, London, 2015
We Are One, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK, 2014
A, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, 2014
Liqueur d’Expédition, Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
Seven Billion Two Hundred and One Million, Nine Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand, 2014
And Two Hundred and Thirty-Eight, The Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK (cat.), 2014
Seven Billion Two Hundred and One Million, Nine Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand And Two Hundred and Thirty-Eight, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK, 2014
Vestige, Foundation Frances, France, 2014
Pense Bete, LARM Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2014
L’Amour Fou, David Nolan Gallery, New York, USA, 2013
The Years, Ben Brown Gallery, London (cat.), 2013
GT, The Monaco Project for the Arts, Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Plastique de la Ville de Monaco (cat.), 2013
Vanacular, The Gervasuti Foundation at the 55 th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2013
Transit Disaster, Paul Stolper Gallery, London, 2012
Türk, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
Gunslinger, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, Switzerland, 2012
Gavin & Turk, Ben Brown Gallery, London (cat.), 2012
Jack Shit!, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium, 2011
Before The World Was Round, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 2011
En Face Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 2011
Me As He, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland, 2011
Something Like This, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea (cat.), 2010
En Face, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France, 2010
Les Bikes de Bois Rond , Artconnexion, Lille, France, 2010
Les Bikes de Bois Rond, Fleet: Art In The Haven Ports, UK, 2010
En Face, CAC Malaga, Spain (cat.), 2010
The Mirror Stage, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2009
Turkey Foil, Aurel Scheibler Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2009
Gavin Turk Ltd, Paul Stolper, London, 2009
Jazzz, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York, USA, 2009
Gavin Turk, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium, 2008
Burnt Out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland, 2008
Piss Off, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 2008
Me as Him, Riflemaker, London (cat.), 2007
Negotiation of Purpose, GEM Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague, Netherlands, 2007
The Negotiation of Purpose, Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporian, Grenoble, France, 2007
Waste Not Want Not, Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
Wanted, The Suburban, Illinois, USA, 2006
The Font Project, Fine Art Society, London (cat.), 2006
Last Year in Eggenberg (The Paradise Show), Schloss Eggenberg, Graz, Austria, 2006
Ha ha ha! Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France, 2005
White Elephant, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York, USA, 2005
Melange, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 2005
Gavin Turk Faces, Edinburgh Print Makers, Endinburgh, Scotland, 2004
Faces: A Print Portfolio by Gavin Turk, Badcocks, Cornwall, UK, 2004
The Golden Thread, White Cube Gallery, London, 2004
Subsistence, Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003
Et in Arcadia Eggo, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery Roche Court, Salisbury, UK, 2003
Gavin Turk in the House, Sherborne House, Dorset, UK (cat.), 2003
Spare Change, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany, 2003
Gavin Turk Oeuvre, Tate Britain Sculpture Court, London, 2002
Copper Jubilee, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK (cat.), 2002
The Che Guevara Story, Foundry, London, 2001
More Stuff, Centre d’Art Contemporian, Geneva, Switzerland, 2000
Fig-1: 50 Projects in 50 Weeks, Fig-1, London (cat.), 2000
The Importance of Being Ernesto, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 1999
The Stuff Show, South London Gallery, London, 1998
Gavin Turk Studio Show, Charing Cross Road, London, 1997
Unoriginal Signature, Habitat, Kings Road, London, 1996
British Art in Rome, Galleria D’Arte De Crescenzo & Vesti, Rome, Italy, 1996
Turkish, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany, 1995
Collected Works 1989-1993, Jay Jopling, Denmark Street, London, 1993
A Night Out With Gavin Turk, Victoria Public House, Bapisha Ghosh, London and Schiefer Haus, Cologne, Germany, 1993
A Marvellous Force of Nature, White Cube, London, 1993
Signature, Bipasha Ghosh / Jay Jopling, London, 1992
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Turk has exhibited in numerous group shows and fairs including: Photo London, Royal Academy of Arts (London), Saatchi Gallery (London), Centre pompidou (France), MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Spain), Tate Modern (London), Tate Liverpool, Barbican Art Galleries (London), White Cube (London), Almine Rech Gallery (Belgium, France), New Orleans Museum of Art (USA), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (USA) and more.
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