Gavin Turk's Outdated Provocations

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Gavin Turk , a formerly-young British artist, is more succinct. It is the nature of retrospectives that the works contained within them adopt new meanings in alternative social and political climates.

He is a master of the homage, the pastiche, and the citation. Everything in the Turk retrospective is a matter of being in on the joke. The Young British Artists at 50 , tackles this directly — but of more concern is who exactly Turk imagines as his audience.

A retrospective is perhaps not the best indicator of exactly how Turk thinks now, but the decision to host one, particularly at Newport Street, suggests that he is content with continuing his conversation inside its own bubble. Resting on this achievement alone is an exercise in schoolboy smarm.

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Who What When Where Why continues at the Newport Street Gallery Newport Street, London, UK through March We write this in hopes that more artists will finally break with their sense of exceptionalism and consider the roles they play in the gentrification process.

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