I visited the Saatchi Gallery, Sloane Square this week with my daughter. The current set of exhibitions are almost all by female artists, largely young and unknown ones. They range from the brilliantly conceived and executed through the mediocre to the incomprehensible, as you might expect. I took a few photos. This is a V12 BMW coffee table: This is a crochet work: This is a set of white marble and black granite sculptures by Aidan, in the form of books: This piece by Alice Anderson, made of copper, is larger than it looks: ... and this piece consists of 181 Kilometers of copper wire: I also viewed the pool of used engine oil (named "20:50") by Richard Wilson, a famous piece dating from 1987 which I saw then in its earlier home in County Hall. Admission to the Saatchi is free, by the way. Saatchi Gallery
Good post, like the marble books. You have a good eye for the camera. Me and Mrs carr01 went to the walker gallery in Liverpool last weekend, we stayed the night and ate at the Art School Restaurant. A highly recommended trip.
Guildhall Art Gallery - Guildhall Galleries - City of London If you are fond of Pre-Raphaelites @Carr01 here are a couple which I snapped at the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London recently:
Does look very similar to the earlier post of pete's. Think you would need the "right" kind of home for that type of art... And probably being single would help!
Pushrod V8s are a lot cheaper than DOHC V12s. And artworks are more expensive in Chelsea than elsewhere. Now there's a surprise.
i think they have a different description for art in chelsea also. nice piece of furniture but its not art. the table that is.
I recently looked into disposing of an oil painting by a fairly well known and collectable Cornish artist who is now dead. Her paintings regularly sell for about £3000, the gallery offered me £350 with a fairly lengthy and interesting justification based upon how the gallery system works. I still have the painting, which unfortunately I don't particularly like.
tough one. for me anyhoo. most could tell you what it isnt, but art being art somebody would be able to argue otherwise.
Agreed, there is a V12 Jag block on Ebay currently @ £112 - already prepped and painted but no pistons to support the glass. A potential cheap project if someone wants one. Jaguar V12 Engine Coffee Table | eBay
I think an artist has to show us something new about the world in which we live and cause us to stop and think about what that thing is. Here is a painting by Kim Sears She is incredibly talented, but is it art ? I think not. It doesn't tell us anything more than a photograph would. Yet here is a photograph that I would consider to be art If Tracey Emin arranges a dirty bed and Charles Saatchi buys it then it is art, if you or I did the same it wouldn't be.
