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From: NNed Thisom Category: Art Date: 21 July 2007 Time: 02:31 PM Review: Ah yes, the photorealist sculpture. An idea pioneered by John De Andrea and Duane Hanson in the late sixties, around the same time as photoreal painting emerged. This idea has subsequently been used by many pre-YBA's, Charles Ray and Jeff Koons among them. Then many YBA's after them, Hirst and the Chapmans among them. I remember seeing people kicking the Chapman Brothers sculpture, Death, in the Turner prize a few years ago (it was a bronze of two inflatable figures having sex on a lilo painted to look like inflatables) to make sure it was made of bronze. A cheap trick and a disappointing piece of work by them. My point being this idea, like everthing else Turk, and most of them really, has ever done is a re-hash of something once innovative. Strangely this 'photoreal sculpture' stills seems to hold some weight in an art world where photoreal painting was out of vogue very quickly after it emerged. Also I think somebody else did bin bags before him. Not sure who?