Gavin turk in his studio 54

  • In the evenings, he was to be seen with Andy at Studio 54, Halston's, or openings at MoMA or the Met. Johnson collected art from an early age and had purchased.
  • The fourth solo exhibition of the British artist Gavin Turk (4 November – 14 January) has been announced by Ben Brown Fine Arts London.
  • In 2004 Gavin Turk made a series of tea stains.

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    Gavin Turk

    Interview

    Gavin Turk on impersonating Elvis, Ford transit vans, and the problems of careful consumption.

    May 9, 2013

    Gavin Turk. Nomad, 2003. Painted bronze, 42 × 169 × 105 cm. All images courtesy of Gavin Turk and Live Stock Market.

    The neighborhood around Gavin Turk’s East London studio is exactly what naysayers said the 2012 Olympics would bring. In the shadow of the still-resonating stadium, this semi-circular road is littered with barbed wire and discarded McDonald’s wrappers; empty warehouses and the cold, sign-less facades that seem more like a ’70s J. G. Ballard paperback cover than 2013 London.

    Such juxtapositions are manna to Turk, one of the original “YBAs” (“Young British Artists”) who came to dominate Brit-art in the 1990s. In a career spanning more than 20 years, a fact commemorated in his new monograph, The Years, and current show at Ben Brown Fine Arts in London, Turk has created an entire language for questioning authenticity and p

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    GAVIN TURK - BIOGRAPHY

    Gavin Turk was born in 1967 in Guildford, England and attended the Royal College of Art in London. In 1991 Turk was denied his MA certificate from the Royal College of Art for his degree show presentation, which consisted of an empty white studio with a blue English Heritage plaque installed, which simply bore the inscription "Borough of Kensington/GAVIN TURK/Sculptor/Worked Here 1989-1991." Beginning his career paradoxically with his own död eller bortgång and posthumous recognition set the tone for his subsequent work, which dealt with the cult of personality and the construction of artistic myth. In the 1990s, Turk came to prominence as one of Britain's infamous "Young British Artists" and was included in the influential Sensation exhibition in 1997.

    Turk's work has been included in many seminal exhibitions including currently the groundbreaking 'POP LIFE' at Tate Modern as well as the Venice Biennale 2009, the 46th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul in 199

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    Ewan McGregor is…. Halston. Yes, the much-anticipated first season of Netflix’s new docu-series tracing the fabulous career of US designer Roy Halston Frowick is available to stream from today. Famed for dressing the likes of Greta Garbo and Bianca Jagger, his designs were permanent guests inside the glitzy Studio 54. Memorable Halston highlights include: Jackie Kennedy’s pillbox hat, Liza Minnelli’s entire wardrobe (basically) and the ultra-chic Halston-branded carpeting.

    In this new series, executive-produced by Ryan Murphy [Pose, American Horror Story], everything is dialled up to 11 as we witness Halston’s career quickly rise before spinning out of control faster than those Studio 54 disco balls following a series of bad business deals, outrageous spending and excessive drug use.

    Stream Halston series 1 on Netflix now.

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