Saatchi gallery

The gallery Saatchi (Saatchi Gallery) is a gallery of Contemporary art created by Charles Saatchi in 1985 with London. The collection occupied various places of the city, initially located at the north of London ( Boundary Road ), it is installed then close to the station of Waterloo, on southern bank of the Thames ( County Hall ), then with Chelsea, district of the south-west of London (opened with the public during 2007). First of all exposing artists minimalists and American, this gallery had a major influence on British art since its opening. It turned then to a new generation of English artists, the Young British Artists, whose many unknown saw their careers taking off thereafter. Then more recently, again exposes American works in an exposure entitled the United States today ( USA Today ), with the Royal Academy of London.

The collection and the future museum

Boundary Road

Since its opening, in 1985, the Saatchi gallery had a major influence on British art. Representing American artists, such as Richard Tightened, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Philip Guston, or Andy Warhol, it sells its collection of works of art American, for miser, as from 1990, on a new generation of English artists, of which made party Damien Hirst. This one had organized, in 1988, the exposure Freeze, with a collective of students of the Goldsmiths College . The Saatchi gallery will have supported the movement with its own collection of works of artists resulting from schools of art and alternative figures of the art Londonien represented in the exposure Young British Artists (YBAs), in 1992, with the noticed work of Damien Hirst - the shark preserved in formol - entitled the physical impossibility of died in the spirit of alive a ( The Physical Impossibility off Death in the Mind off Someone Living ).

The gallery is famous for its media controversy and will have known an extreme critical reaction. Many supported artists were unknown steps only general public, but also of the world of art: to expose to the gallery will have allowed a good number of launchings of career. Contemporary artists have a world famous today. Among them, there is Jenny Saville, Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Rachel Whiteread (hostile Tracey Emin in Saatchi finally joined the gallery for the exposure of 1997 Sensation ).

The exposure Feeling , then very discussed, organized in September 1997 to the Royal Academy of London, showed 110 works of the Saatchi collection carried out by 42 artists. The exposure moved in Berlin, then in New York in 1999.

During this time, other exposures of various topics were held with the gallery itself. In 1998, Saatchi organizes an exposure highly criticized, entitled Neurotic Realism , with Cecily Brown, Ron Mueck, Noble and Webster, Dexter Dalwood, Martin Maloney, Chantal Joffe, Michael Raedecker and David Thorpe, of the later high artists to the row of star.
In 2000, Ant Noises (the anagram of feeling in English) exposes the work of Hirst, Lucas, Saville, Whiteread, the Chapman brothers, Turk, Emin and Chris Ofili.

County Hall

In April 2003, the gallery moves in County Hall on southern bank of the the Thames. One counts 1000 guests with varnishing, who discover a performance of 200 individuals there completely naked guests by the artist Spencer Tunick.

The exposure of opening is a retrospective of Damien Hirst (in which this last, which does not form any more part of the gallery, was not implied) as well as the work of other young British artists, like Jake and Dinos Chapman and Tracey Emin, but also moreover more tested like John Bratby, Paula Rego and Patrick Caulfield.

In 2004, new acquisitions of Saatchi (whose Stella Fortifies), are shown in New Blood , an exposure of more or less known artists, working with various media, like the installation and new technologies. It accepted a poor appreciation, which was worth in Saatchi a bitter explanation against criticisms.

May 24th, 2004, a fire devastates the warehouse of Momart, destroying many works, mainly that of Tracey Emin of the series Everyone I Cuts Ever Slept With 1963-95 , and table Hell of Jake and Dinos Chapman. A specialist in insurance declared the loss of a value of 50 million Books.

The gallery of County Hall received 600.000 visitors per annum. There was nearly 1000 school visits.

Chelsea

December 27th, 2005, the gallery announces that it settles with Chelsea. The removal is done during the year 2006 with in a new whole of 5000 m located at Kings Road close to the Sloane Square. During the period of work, Charles Saatchi develops an Internet site open to the young artists.

In July 2007, Charles Saatchi expresses his will to open a free museum of contemporary art in partnership with the Swiss appraiser Simon de Pury, chair house of auctions Philips-In Pury & Co. With this museum which will be coupled with the gallery of Chelsea, he hopes to make thus pass the number of annual visits to more than one million visitors.

The creation of Internet site Saatchi

In 2006, for the period of removal, the site of the gallery places at the disposal a section free access, making it possible to the artists to download to the maximum eight photographs of works and a page of biography on their own page Your Gallery. Nearly 20.000 artists were registered. In November, the Saatchi gallery exclusively opens a new site for the Stuart students. Students in art of the whole world can profit from their own page with the images of their work, the list of their artists, books, films preferred, as well as the bonds towards the pages of their friends. The site also makes it possible to the students to discuss on line, thus supporting the exchanges of idea about their artistic work.

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