Gavin Turk — Pop, 1993 — Saatchi Collection Postcard

Saatchi Collection postcard
10.5 × 15.75 cm
Offset print on card stock

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.

Condition: Very good vintage condition. Minor handling wear, light surface rubbing, soft corner wear, faint age toning consistent with storage and circulation.

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