GAVIN TURK: EN FACE

This is a collection of sculptures fashioned in clay through which the artist invites viewers to ponder concepts such as authorship, authenticity and the values of artistic creations. In spite of the fact that in 1991 he was denied his degree from the Royal College of Art, due to a controversial installation of an empty room displaying only a plaque with the inscription “Borough of Kensington/GAVIN TURK/Sculptor/Worked Here 1989-1991”, he is a key component in the collective YBA’s. En Face consists of a set of busts made of clay, the result of an interactive performance carried out in April in his studio under the title “The Bust Party” where a group of people handled the wet clay of 72 busts portraying the artist, until they transformed a classic self-portrait.