Saatchi Collection
Gavin Turk — Pop, 1993 — Saatchi Collection Postcard
Gavin Turk — Pop, 1993 — Saatchi Collection Postcard
- Artist
- Gavin Turk
- Issued by
- Saatchi Collection
- Type
- Postcard
- Format
- Offset print on card stock
- Size
- 10.5 × 15.75 cm
- Condition
- Very good vintage condition: minor handling wear, light surface rubbing, soft corner wear, faint age toning consistent with storage and circulation.
- Register
- TNR-2026-0209 · 15 June 2026
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Notes
Postcard reproducing Gavin Turk’s Pop (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.
The 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.
Distributed 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.
A precise document from the moment British art increasingly merged with branding, media visibility, and curated persona construction.
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