ME as HIM

by Tot Taylor

My book about how the British conceptual artist GAVIN TURK 'remade' a 1986 Anthony d'Offay Gallery ANDY WARHOL exhibition in 2007 at Riflemaker Gallery in London. Turk subsumed his features within Warhol's 'fright-wig' skull for a group of multi-coloured screenprinted canvases. But the book has a wider narrative about the particular nature of Warhol's - and Turk's - art. The show was an immediate sell-out. I was at both exhibitions (I curated Turk's, with Riflemaker co-director Virginia Damtsa). I sat with Warhol at the 1986 exhibition dinner and 'chatted' with the maestro. 600 copies were printed. These three were found in a storage box in 2016.

32 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2007

Reviews

[Lyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a lot more interesting than I expected it would be. It's kind of a little history lesson. It features some pretty cool pictures, too, though several of them were different versions of the same picture... Obviously, that picture was important, but I don't find it to be very interesting picture, so it made the book less interesting.
Note: I received this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways.