{"title":"Gavin Turk","description":"\u003cp\u003eGavin Turk (born 1967, Guildford) is a British artist associated with the Young British Artists generation of the late 1980s and 1990s. His practice centres on questions of authorship, identity, authenticity, and the construction of the artist as cultural persona. Working across sculpture, painting, printmaking, and installation, Turk consistently interrogates the mechanisms by which artistic value, celebrity, and institutional legitimacy are produced and sustained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis best-known work, \u003cem\u003ePop\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), presents a wax self-portrait modelled simultaneously on Sid Vicious, museum display culture, and counterfeit identity — encased in a vitrine and holding a gun toward the viewer. The work was acquired by the Saatchi Collection and became one of the defining sculptural images of the early YBA period. Turk’s practice also includes \u003cem\u003eCave\u003c\/em\u003e (1991), a blue heritage plaque installed in his Royal College of Art studio declaring his own presence, which was rejected as his degree show and became a foundational gesture in his ongoing examination of institutional authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together exhibition ephemera and printed matter connected to Turk’s practice and institutional presentations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"turk-pop-1993-saatchi-postcard","title":"Gavin Turk — Pop, 1993 — Saatchi Collection Postcard","description":"\u003cp\u003eSaatchi Collection postcard\u003cbr\u003e10.5 × 15.75 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card stock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostcard reproducing Gavin Turk’s \u003cem\u003ePop\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), one of the defining sculptural images associated with the early YBA period and the rise of the Saatchi Collection as a staging ground for 1990s British contemporary art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work presents Turk as a wax self-portrait modelled simultaneously on Sid Vicious, museum display culture, celebrity mythology, and counterfeit identity. Encased within a vitrine and holding a gun toward the viewer, the sculpture collapses self-portraiture, punk image culture, institutional display, and commercial spectacle into a single controlled image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistributed through the Saatchi Collection, the postcard extends the logic of the installation itself: the artwork converted into portable promotional matter. The vitrine becomes image; the image becomes printed support; the artist becomes a reproducible surface moving through circulation systems tied to the museum shop, archive, collection, and secondary market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA precise document from the moment British art increasingly merged with branding, media visibility, and curated persona construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good vintage condition. Minor handling wear, light surface rubbing, soft corner wear, faint age toning consistent with storage and circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53757576413522,"sku":"TURK-SAATCHI-PC-1993","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Turk_Gavin_POP_1993_Saatchi_collection_01_d8e88721-5fdd-48af-b927-d488b642a2d4.jpg?v=1781546639"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/gavin-turk.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}