About Saatchi Gallery
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Saatchi Gallery Description
The Saatchi Gallery opened in October 2008 in the 70, 000 sq. ft. Duke of York HQ building on King's Road, Chelsea with an exhibition dedicated to new art from China. Since then it has presented exhibitions of new work from the Middle East, India, America, the UK, as well as a major exhibition of international sculpture called The Shape of Things to Come.
In 2009 the Saatchi Gallery's exhibitions of work from China and the Middle East were ranked the top two most visited exhibitions in London by The Art Newspaper.
In The Art Newspaper's 2010 survey the Saatchi Gallery's three exhibitions that year - Newspeak: British Art Now, Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture and The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today - were ranked as the second, third and fourth most visited in London, surpassed only by Van Gogh at the Royal Academy of Arts.
The Saatchi Gallery aims to provide an innovative forum for contemporary art, presenting work by largely unknown young artists or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK.
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Happy Birthday to Syd Mead, whose ideas and designs, such as the worlds of Blade Runner and Tron, shaped a generation of visual futurist artists. 👾👽 #SydMead #BladeRunner #Tron #FuturistArt #SciFi #Film #Art #ContemporaryArt #SaatchiGallery #London
This sculpture, by The Glue Society, not only conveyed a strong message about climate change but also made many children cry when they saw it.🍦☀️ #TheGlueSociety #ClimateChange #IceCream #Sculpture #ContemporaryArt #Art #SaatchiGallery #London
Our artist of the week is Sara Barker, who works at the intersection of sculpture, painting and drawing. See some of her work on show at the Saatchi Gallery now. #ArtistOfTheWeek #SaraBarker #Sculpture #Painting #Drawing #ContemporaryArt #Art #SeeItNow
"I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night...Who ever wants to know something about me...ought to look carefully at my pictures."
Born #OTD in 1892, Gustav Klimt's ornate, sensual, and decadent style made him the most prominent of the Vienna Secessionists.
Feeling spooked this Friday 13th? 👻
By North Carolina photographer Nathaniel Flowers #DigitalArt #ContemporaryArt #Art
Our #KnownUnknowns #ArtistOfTheWeek is Netherlands born artist Saskia Olde Wolbers!
Referencing computer-generated imagery, the liquid visuals in the video installation ‘Interloper’, 2003 are entirely analogue, shot in real-time in model sets. Skeletal objects, architecture and living forms are given a “skin” when dipped in paint and submerged underwater. The installation presents a fictional story based on the syndrome ‘Pseudoligica Phantastica’, where invented experiences a...re presented as reality.
Saskia explains, “The video is set within the endless corridors of a hospital with the off-screen narrative told by a supposedly married man who claims he is a surgeon. He wakes up from a nine-month coma, has a near death experience and floats above his deluded self through the basement bowels of a hospital...”
Discover the rest of the narrative by visiting our current exhibition Known Unknowns. Open 10am-6pm, 7 days a week. Admission is free.
#Installation #ContemporaryArt #Art
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Happy Birthday to David Hockney! Born on this day in 1937, the British artist was an important figure in the Pop Art movement and is still considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. #DavidHockney #PopArt #contemporaryart #art #SaatchiGallery #artistbirthday
Today we’re enjoying the work of Frida Kahlo. The Mexican painter survived a near-fatal bus accident at the age of eighteen and learned to paint as a form of therapy, becoming a world-famous artist despite the challenges she faced. #FridaKahlo #MexicanArtist #contemporaryart #art #SaatchiGallery
Our artist of the week is Chuck Close, whose Super-Realism portraits of the 70s mirror the 'look' of photographs to explore ideas of self-identity.
#ChuckClose #drawing #SaatchiGallery#artistoftheweek #art #ContemporaryArt
Now Open! Our new SALON exhibition, in collaboration with Mallett and Dreweatts 1759, ’Dancing with Colour’. A selling exhibition of paintings by the British artist Berenice Sydney (1944 - 1983). Proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to the Royal Academy Schools.
This show will be the first presentation of her work staged at a major public art gallery in over thirty years. Open until 8 July: 10am-6pm, 7 days a week. Admission is free.
Mallett Antiques Dreweatts 1759
... Moving image by InkValley
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Happy birthday Tracey Emin! Born #OTD in 1963 she first exhibited as part of the Saatchi Gallery collection in the 1997 exhibition ‘Sensation’ alongside 42 other artists including Damien Hirst, Ron Mueck and Jenny Saville.
Pictured: ‘I've Got It All’, 2000 and an installation view of ‘Ant Noises’, Saatchi Gallery at Boundary Road, 2000 featuring her 1998 work, 'My Bed'.
Utilizing windows and holes in the side of an abandoned building, artist Penao creates this maniacal face mural in the streets of Barcelona in 2015.
Photo by Joab Jackson
Big weekend ahead?! Our #ArtistoftheWeek Stuart Middleton creates distorted creatures in what are often compared to playful inebriated bar brawls, as suggested in the bar table motif.
The Cheshire, UK born artist creates ‘Sad Sketches 1’ and ‘Sad Sketches 2’, both 2014, from painted paper- mâché to form intertwined, disembodied limbs, truncated to become anonymous material objects.
#StuartMiddleton #Art #ContemporaryArt #SaatchiGallery
Take a seat and enjoy a #TBT to the 8th Istanbul Biennial where Colombian artist Doris Salcedo created her installation titled '1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings', 2003.
Photograph by Muammer Yanmaz #Sculpture #Art #ContemporaryArt #ConceptualArt
Happy Birthday Philip Guston! Born #OTD, in Montreal, Canada, on what would have been his 105th birthday.
He exhibited together with Sigmar Polke and Leon Golub in Saatchi Gallery’s 1988 summer show at Boundary Road.
Pictured: ‘Painter in Bed’, 1973 featured in the 1988 installation shot alongside ‘A Day's Work’, 1970 and ‘Friend - to M. F.’ 1978.
Extended due to popular demand!
Carmignac Photojournalism Award: 'The Trap: Trafficking of Women at the Nepal’ featuring works by French photographer Lizzie Sadin. Pictured: 'Ashika, 23, Usha Bar (Cabin Restaurant), Kalanki, District of Kathmandu - March 2017'.
Open every day 10am – 6pm until 19th July. Admission is free.
... Fondation Carmignac @lizzie.sadin
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In need of a summer dip? Check out ‘Hippo abstract’, 2018 by British and National Geographic photographer Andrew Parkinson.
“The hippo lounged comfortably in what looked like a chocolate fountain but was instead just a smaller tributary of the mighty Mara river.”
@andyparkinsonphoto @natgeo #Photography #Abstract #ContemporaryArt #Art
“My little inside joke is that I still want my images to look like digital composites,” photographer Thomas Jackson explains. Instead of Photoshop, it’s his sculpting and his scaffolding, which he installs on beaches and in deserts, that give life to the illusions.
Pictured: ‘’Hula Hoops no. 2’, Montara, California, 2016
@thomasjackson415 #Photography #Art #ContemporaryArt
➡️➡️➡️ SWIPE FOR DETAILS: Our #ArtistOfTheWeek is Welsh born Bedwyr Williams!
Displayed inside a vitrine, ‘Prudence’, 2012, presents a square wig made for a completely square head. It savagely parodies the harsh bob haircuts of what some refer to as “Gallerinas”: stereotypical attractive gallery girls. Often quite intimidating figures, the haircut refers to power – the face is squarely framed in the bob, but Bedwyr’s sculpture casts a casually mocking eye over this phenomenon... to reveal a gently sardonic reflection on the human condition.
Our current exhibition Known Unknowns is open 10am-6pm, 7 days a week. Admission is free.
#KnownUnknowns
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