6 July – 2 September 2013,

Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Plastique de la Ville de Monaco.

The Monaco Project for the Arts is pleased to present GT, a solo exhibition by Gavin Turk.

Situated within the Pavillon Bosio of the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Plastique de la Ville de Monaco, and responding to Monte Carlo’s tradition of Grand Prix, Turk’s GT is a platform for futurology, converting cultural exhaustion to a forward thrust propellant. Infiltrating the Riviera’s glamour with his British punk ethos, Turk presents a body of new works including sculptures, screen prints and a performance of production-by-proxy made in collaboration with students from Monaco’s leading art school.

Central to the exhibition is Turk’s new sculpture, Pipe, a hyper-realistically finished bronze cast of a transit van exhaust pipe: a hallowed relic of England’s fading working class, corroded artefact of modern technology, a doppelganger of avant-garde abstraction. Enshrined in a vitrine, it subsumes Beuy’s pedagogy and altruism; a pseudo spiritual totem of Turk’s own-brand conceptualism, where originality is the by-product of depletion.

Since the 1990s, identity, authorship, and artist-mythology have become Turk’s signature methodology. His name and images are brandished as trademarks of piracy, as he subtly steals the identities of art history’s heroes, merging their legacies into his own. Replete with functional garden hose and humorous steaming head, Turk’s bronze cast Self Portrait (Fountain) poses as an homage to Alighiero Boetti’s My Mind Is Burning (which is a tribute to Bruce Nauman’s Fountain); the lineage of idea and form amended and progressed, a masterpiece in continuum, less ‘appropriated’ than ‘occupied’ by Turk’s reproduction.

The concept of artist-as-role-play runs throughout Turk’s practice – his aesthetics and personas are not merely borrowed, but re-enacted in full. In Turk’s recent Transit Disaster silk-screens, it’s not only Warhol’s processes and aesthetics that are hijacked, but also the subject matter of his Car Crash series. Framed within the tropes of ultra-pop spectacle, Warhol’s famous emblems of American Horror are supplanted by Turk’s image, fuelled by UK tabloid hysteria: burnt out transit vans and muscle cars, hoodies and hooligans – ‘broken Britain’s’ disenfranchised and underclass, equally endangered and threatening – anointed in toxic auras.

Turk’s Small Nail, which stands man-high, operates as a vacant portrait. Driven into the ground as a landmark or declaration, it is the very armature of art (seemingly placed by the divine force of a Creator). It functions as an open manifesto of art’s endowment and potential – Turk’s own authentic gesture inviting public response. It’s this ethos – propagating entitlement over history, the power of individual action – which drives Turk’s collaboration with Monaco’s young artist. Turk invited each student to design their own logo identity, and contributes to his show by adding their own artistic signatures. Exhibited alongside Turk’s idiosyncratic appropriations – as both co-authors and a performative franchise – are the next-generation of cultural visionaries, Turk’s co-opted art of the future.

Copy Right Patricia Ellis 2013

Please click here for further information: Gavin Turk Website

Patricia Low Contemporary Gstaad/St. Moritz at New Art Dealers Alliance NADA in New York.

The second edition of NADA NYC will take place:

May 10-12 2013 on Pier 36 at Basketball City located at 299 South Street on the East River.

Please click here for further information: NewArtDealers

Patricia Low Contemporary at Art Brussels, Booth 3c-19.

Vernissage 17 April, from 4pm to 10pm.

18 – 21 April 2013, daily from 12 to 7pm.

Nocturne Thursday 18 April to 10 pm.

Solo show by: Sebastian Hammwöhner.

Works by:

• Darren Almond
• Andre Butzer
• Peter Coffin
• Sylvie Fleury
• Barnaby Hosking
• Axel Hütte
• Nathan Mabry
• Stefan Rinck
• Katja Strunz
• Gavin Turk
• Gabriel Vormstein

Please click here for further information: www.artbrussels.be/en

The exhibition presented by the Positive View Foundation shows both the harsh, even brutal realities of the changing environment, as well as its enduring and stunning beauty.

Please click here for further information:

http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/

Selected galleries in St. Moritz welcome you to visit their current exhibitions and meet art lovers and gallerists alike. Please visit our exhibition with artists Peter Halley and Hubertus von Hohenlohe .

For further information please click here: www.not-dal-art.ch

Please click here for further information: artforum.com

Marc Quinn’s wide-ranging oeuvre displays a preoccupation with the mutability of the body and the dualisms that define human life: spiritual and physical, surface and depth, cerebral and sexual. This is Quinn’s first exhibition in Russia and the presentation will include recent paintings and sculptures that explore the themes inherent to the artist’s practice.

For further information please click here: ‘Marc Quinn: The Big Wheel Keeps on Turning’.

During these weeks, there will be a comprehensive program of exhibitions, perfomances, projections and lectures.

For further information please click here: Palais de Tokyo.

For further information please click here: Kunsthalle Würth.

For further information please click here: The Institute of Contemporary Arts.