When looking at this image and others at first glance, I thought it was Warhol’s. However, Gavin Turk has reworked Warhol’s self-portraits in order to challenge and haze the limits about who the artist is, who the subject is, the familiarity of the image itself and how the authorship and ambiguity affect the value of a work.
With an exhibition entitled ‘Me as Him’ at the Riflemaker gallery, the layered patterns of colour are in fact pictures of Gavin Turk himself, taken in the same style as the Warhol prints.
Continuing his manner of using other artists work as the starting point for his own, the screen prints appear in 2D with the colour work layered over the top. Each original print is the same, but with different coloured patterns over it, this following in the style of Warhol.
The combined effect of colour and pattern make the portraits of Gavin Turk personal and distinctively different, with each piece expressing a different aspect of personality. A great exhibition as it questions Warhol’s work as well a make a statement of Turks.
It is a free exhibition which is on viewing till September 8th.
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