<p>A film of the artist as Wolfgang von Kempelen’s ‘Mechanical Turk’playing the ‘Knight's Tour’. Screened life size from the floor upwards.</p>

<p>In this fourteen minute film, Turk disguises himself as a life-sized 18th Century chess-playing automaton, The Mechanical Turk, whose technical wizardry was said to have outwitted even Napoleon, as this elaborate hoax toured around the most illustrious courts of Europe. The film shows Turk replaying the Knight’s Tour, a clever yet pointless circular ritual which takes the Knight across every square on the board in a mechanical mimicry of the “original” “fake”.</p>


The Mechanical Turk

14 minute film projection, cabinet, candlestick & candle and one knight chess piece.

Automaton

Chess

Identity

Masks

Self-Portrait

Faces

Film

A film of the artist as Wolfgang von Kempelen’s ‘Mechanical Turk’playing the ‘Knight's Tour’. Screened life size from the floor upwards.

Embroidery

Etching

Found Object

Glass

Installation

Mixed Media

Object Trouvé

Painted Bronze

Painting

Photographic Work

Public Sculpture

Ready Made

Sculpture

Silkscreen

Work on paper

Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels

Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

David Nolan Gallery, New York

Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Maruani Mercier, Brussels & Knokke

Paul Stolper, London

Reflex, Amsterdam

Gavin Turk

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