Gavin Turk
Me As Him (Gold), 2006
24 Carat gold leaf on Somerset 410gsm
Sheet size: 49.5 x 41.5 cm
Frame size: 55 x 46.5 cm
Frame size: 55 x 46.5 cm
Edition of 20
Signed, dated and numbered
Paul Stolper Gallery
Stand S2
Stand S2
POA
In 'Me As Him', Gavin Turk turns his gaze towards the most celebrated and celebrity-obsessed figure in contemporary art. The final self-portraits of Andy Warhol, exhibited in London in 1986,...
In 'Me As Him', Gavin Turk turns his gaze towards the most celebrated and celebrity-obsessed figure in contemporary art. The final self-portraits of Andy Warhol, exhibited in London in 1986, provided the visual template for Turk to appropriate in a new suite of screen-printed canvases on the subject of originality and the marketable identity of the artist – the artist in question being both Warhol and Turk.