Gavin Turk
born 1967
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In Tate Britain
Biography
Gavin Turk (b 1967) is a British artist from Guildford in Surrey, and is considered to be one of the Young British Artists. Turk's oeuvre deals with issues of authenticity and identity, engaged with modernist and avant-garde debates surrounding the 'myth' of the artist and the 'authorship' of a work of art.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Gavin Turk Study for Window
1991–3 -
Gavin Turk Gavin Turk Right Hand and Forearm
1992 -
Gavin Turk Cavey
1991–7 -
Gavin Turk Font
2006 -
Gavin Turk [no title]
1994 -
Gavin Turk Metamorphosis
2000 -
Gavin Turk Melancholia
2008
Artist as subject
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Gavin Turk Gavin Turk Right Hand and Forearm
1992 -
Gavin Turk Study for Window
1991–3
Film and audio
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Listen
Lichtenstein and Pop Study Day: Other Worlds of British Pop – Part 1
Audio recording. This study day in March 2013 explored issues raised by the major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at Tate Modern -
TateShots
Gavin Turk: Authorship and identity
Turk's artworks include images of himself disguised as Sid Vicious, Che Guevara and Andy Warhol
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