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Gavin Turk - Brief Article
ArtForum, Sept, 2000 by Michael Archer
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Gavin Turk recently sculpted himself as Che Guevara, lying dead in Bolivia. As with his previous incarnation as Sid Vicious posing as Warchol's Elvis, pop, politics, and art collide. The Guevara theme will continue in this, Turk's first major show outside the UK. Billboard images and graffiti tags (fashion meets activism) will accompany other signs of life on the street: a tramp sculpture, cardboard boxes, rubbish bags. The bags and boxes will, of course, be made of metal painted to look like the real thing. These and a dozen other works--including, perhaps, a film about the search for a smoking monkey (a surrogate Kurtz?)--are staging posts for Turk's ongoing exploration of artifice and authenticity. Sept. 22. 2000--Jan. 21, 2001.
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