Revolving Love (Blue) by Gavin Turk
£2,400.00 incl. VAT
Supplied framed
Edition of 60
Screenprint with embossing. Framed in a white wooden box frame, floated with museum glass
Signed by the artist on the front, numbered on the reverse
Published by Manifold Editions, 2022
Sheet size: 70 x 70 cm
Framed size: 75.5 x 75.5 cm
Accompanied by a Saatchi Gallery Certificate of Authenticity
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Revolving Love exists in a sea of reference; a playful take on Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE letters (1964-), where the letter ‘O’ begins to topple over. Turk has exaggerated this effect, creating LOVE letters that almost appear to spin 360-degrees.
Printed in two colourways, Revolving Love create a dizzying illusion inspired by Op Art, where the letters rotate and pulsate as the complimentary colours oscillate. The series also closely references Richard Hamilton’s Epiphany (1963-1989), with its ribald statement across the surface with the words, ‘SLIP IT TO ME’, as well as the stuttering colourways of Marcel Duchamp’s Fluttering Hearts (1961).
The button-like shape of each edition – enhanced by the high-gloss varnish surface and embossing – can also be seen to reference Gavin Turk’s infamous 1991 degree show sculpture, where he exhibited a glossy ceramic blue heritage plaque titled Cave.
Photography credits: Stephen White Photography. Image credits (Gavin Turk): © Gavin Turk & Manifold Editions
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Description
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.
Gavin Turk’s work is held within public and private collections worldwide.
