Gavin Turk British, b. 1967
Milk Three Sugars, 2003
Painted bronze
10 x 9 x 9 cm; (4 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
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Over the past 25 years, Gavin Turk has solidified a reputation for challenging notions of value and the myth of artistic integrity. Turk pioneered a new British trompe l’oeil when...
Over the past 25 years, Gavin Turk has solidified a reputation for challenging notions of value and the myth of artistic integrity. Turk pioneered a new British trompe l’oeil when he first began casting bronze sculptures that he then painted to look like ephemera or urban waste. Milk Three Sugars (2003) is an exquisitely detailed bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea on the inside and painted to look real.