Holy Egg (Medium Yellow)

Acrylic paint and diamond dust on canvas

Alchemy

Eggs

This sculpture in the Station Square set against the colonnade of Cambridge Station generates echoes of a Giorgio de Chirico painting, playing with the Italian artist’s metaphysical, surreal cityscapes. At first glance to be an object covered in a dust sheet and bound with rope, on further inspection it becomes apparent that this sculpture is a trompe l’oeil and the coy cloth covering is forever fixed, the temporary surface permanent.The shape of the covered object suggests a reclining figure, in an archetypal prone pose, the mythical Ariadne saviour of Theseus now abandoned on the island of Naxos, from this classical story of forces beyond humanity. Now presented as a packaged shape forever in transportation, informed by the sound of the train the parcel lies in limbo. The criss-cross of ropes and string act like compositional or navigation lines, pointers to new perspectives.Art historically the wrapped work reminds the viewer of other artworks namely by Christo and Jean-Claude, Man Ray and even Henry Moore.In 2011 Gavin Turk installed Nail, a 12-metre bronze sculpture of a giant rusty nail protruding from the pavement, in front of St Pauls Cathedral, and in 2016 the Artist installed L’Âge d’Or a ‘larger than life’ painted bronze door in Queen Elizabeth Park. These works including the newly placed ‘Ariadne Wrapped’ are surreal symbols, that invite the audience inside a larger metaphysical maze. &nbsp;

Cast bronze on Portland stone plinth

Ariadne

Art History

Sculpture

This sculpture in the Station Square set against the colonnade of Cambridge Station generates echoes of a Giorgio de Chirico painting, playing with the Italian artist’s metaphysical, surreal cityscapes. At first glance to be an object covered in a dust sheet and bound with rope, on further inspection it becomes apparent that this sculpture is a trompe l’oeil and the coy cloth covering is forever fixed, the temporary surface permanent.

Ariadne Wrapped

Zwei Rauchende Kerzen

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Fire

Painted bronze

Food

Painted Bronze

The Unveiling

Oil on canvas and spolight

Mythology

Artist

Transit Mirror

Cracked Transit Mirror

Mirrors

Transit

Vehicles

Pink Monochrome

Oil paint on canvas

Klein

Small Blue Monochrome

Painting

Small Blue Monochrome in Box Frame

Famously Magritte paints a pipe, with the painted words ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe.’, whereas here the artist presents two bananas and calls them ‘Spoons’.

Two bronze cast bananas painted in a cartoon playful fashion, displayed spooning each other – a minimal still life, abandoned by the rest of the fruit bowl. These bananas are an exotic and suggestive symbol of global trade, logistics, markets, and power as well as gender and sexuality. 

The artist is playfully homaging the history of bananas in art by artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Georgio de Chirico and Andy Warhol.
 
In 2005 Gavin Turk produced a series of banana fruit stickers and in 2013 created a 4m neon Banana sculpture that was exhibited in his show at the Bowes Museum, more recently in October 2021 the Artist revealed a new painted bronze blackened banana 'Giraffe' at Frieze London as a nod to Maurizio Cattelan. 



Spoons

Famously Magritte paints a pipe, with the painted words ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe.’, whereas here the artist presents two bananas and calls them ‘Spoons’.Two bronze cast bananas painted in a cartoon playful fashion, displayed spooning each other – a minimal still life, abandoned by the rest of the fruit bowl. These bananas are an exotic and suggestive symbol of global trade, logistics, markets, and power as well as gender and sexuality. The artist is playfully homaging the history of bananas in art by artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Georgio de Chirico and Andy Warhol. In 2005 Gavin Turk produced a series of banana fruit stickers and in 2013 created a 4m neon Banana sculpture that was exhibited in his show at the Bowes Museum, more recently in October 2021 the Artist revealed a new painted bronze blackened banana 'Giraffe' at Frieze London as a nod to Maurizio Cattelan.

Famously Magritte paints a pipe, with the painted words ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe.’, whereas here the artist presents two bananas and calls them ‘Spoons’. Two bronze cast bananas painted in a cartoon playful fashion, displayed spooning each other – a minimal still life, abandoned by the rest of the fruit bowl. These bananas are an exotic and suggestive symbol of global trade, logistics, markets, and power as well as gender and sexuality.

Kerzenmalerei

Authorship

Kirchenkerze

Meta-Kerze

Metaphysical Composition

Acrylic on canvas with string

Kerze (Hellblau)

Smoke

Death

Kerzen (Grün und Blau) (2)

Kerzen (Grün und Blau)

Kerzen (Grün und Grau)

Kerzen (Schwarz und Weiß)

Gold Banana

Gold leaf and acrylic paint on canvas

Holy Egg (Pale Pink)

Holy Egg (Small White)

FOMO

Readymade

Trash

Framed Blue Monochrome

De Chirico Sky

Clouds

Drei Kerzen

Eine Kerze

Acrylic paint on wall

Elsewhere In the Afternoon II

Embroidery

Etching

Film

Found Object

Glass

Installation

Mixed Media

Object Trouvé

Photographic Work

Public Sculpture

Ready Made

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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