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Gavin Turk — Box
Gavin Turk

Box

A meticulously crafted painted bronze sculpture, Gavin Turk's *Box* presents a life-sized cardboard box rendered in the artist's signature trompe l'oeil style. The work challenges perceptions of value and authenticity, transforming an everyday disposable object into a permanent, weighty artifact through the alchemy of bronze casting and careful painterly mimicry. Turk's fascination with identity, authorship, and the nature of art objects is encapsulated in this deceptive interplay between the mundane and the monumental.

Medium
painted bronze

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Under the Influence

April 11, 2013

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Gavin Turk, Box

A meticulously crafted painted bronze sculpture, Gavin Turk's *Box* presents a life-sized cardboard box rendered in the artist's signature trompe l'oeil style. The work challenges perceptions of value and authenticity, transforming an everyday disposable object into a permanent, weighty artifact through the alchemy of bronze casting and careful painterly mimicry. Turk's fascination with identity, authorship, and the nature of art objects is encapsulated in this deceptive interplay between the mundane and the monumental.

Medium
painted bronze
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Sculpture, Conceptual Art, British Artist, Identity And Representation, Contemporary Art, Trompe-l'oeil, Three-Dimensional, Bronze Casting

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