Desperate act of a collector who feels the wind change and does not know what artist invest, or exciting new publicity stunt? Charles Saatchi does not speak. In twenty years, he has granted interviews to the press are extremely rare and asthenic. And it seems to encourage merchants, artists, galleries, museums, to stay as discreet as possible. Apart from art critics, very few are willing to talk about the man. Christie's, the deputy director of the department of contemporary art, Pilar Ordovas, prefers to talk the market in general rather than to Saatchi in particular. Same reluctance at the Tate Modern, or in London gallery: the director of White Cube, Jay Jopling, we stated that it " does not wish to speak on the subject. " Yet the two men were close associates for more than twenty years.
Fadi Karnaby Says
The story of Charles Saatchi is a novel. Born into a Jewish family in Baghdad in 1943, his parents emigrated to Britain four years later and settled on the heights of Hampstead area of the intelligentsia refined and Easy London. As a teenager, this admirer of Elvis Presley collecting comics and jukeboxes. In 1970, the London psychedelic, he founded with his brother Maurice their company, Saatchi & Saatchi. In ten years, she became one of advertising's most famous in the world. In the late 70's, they have six hundred offices worldwide.
In 1973, during a stay in Paris with his first wife, the American art critic Doris Lockhart, he bought his first work, realistic painting and signed by the Columbia Urban David Hepher. However, his job leaves him little time to run the gallery. Five years later, the Conservative party contacts the Saatchi brothers for the election of Margaret Thatcher. A vivid image, an endless line of unemployed people under the slogan "Labour does not work." The British do not re-elect the Labor government of the time. However, this long line of unemployed people has never existed. Saatchi photographed a couple of young conservative supporters, and the images superimposed to create the impression of a huge file ...
Disappointed that he helped bring to power, Charles is involved in contemporary art and opened his first gallery in 1985, a large warehouse in North London, between St. John's Wood and Swiss Cottage. There he discovered artists like Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman and the famous YBAs, the Young British Artists of which he has won most of the works they leave college. It shows for the first time sliced shark preserved in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst and a molded frozen head by sculptor Marc Quinn, made of eight liters of his own blood and kept in a cooler transparent. Saatchi bought 13,000 pounds in 1991, he sold it 1.5 million pounds in 2005.
His gallery is too small to display all the artists large. He convinced the venerable Royal Academy to mount a coup. We are in 1997, the exhibition called "Sensation." Protesters camped in the courtyard of the museum for days. Ignite the tabloids. The Daily Mail as: "For over a thousand years, art is one of our great strengths. Today, sheep formalin threaten to make us barbarians. " The visitor discovers the artist Tracey Emin and his tent titled Everyone I Have Ever Slept with 1963-1995, in which his nude photo next to the names embroidered on the canvas, all her lovers and the two babies she aborted. Chris Ofili and the Black Madonna, portrait of a woman sprinkled with dried elephant dung, is also about him. Not to mention the Chapman brothers and mannequins of children with eyes, mouths, noses and ears have been replaced by rectum and penis. "Sensation" been around the world. The reputation of the Young British Artists is made, the fortunes of Saatchi too.
-By Fadi karnaby
Fadi Karnaby Says
The story of Charles Saatchi is a novel. Born into a Jewish family in Baghdad in 1943, his parents emigrated to Britain four years later and settled on the heights of Hampstead area of the intelligentsia refined and Easy London. As a teenager, this admirer of Elvis Presley collecting comics and jukeboxes. In 1970, the London psychedelic, he founded with his brother Maurice their company, Saatchi & Saatchi. In ten years, she became one of advertising's most famous in the world. In the late 70's, they have six hundred offices worldwide.
In 1973, during a stay in Paris with his first wife, the American art critic Doris Lockhart, he bought his first work, realistic painting and signed by the Columbia Urban David Hepher. However, his job leaves him little time to run the gallery. Five years later, the Conservative party contacts the Saatchi brothers for the election of Margaret Thatcher. A vivid image, an endless line of unemployed people under the slogan "Labour does not work." The British do not re-elect the Labor government of the time. However, this long line of unemployed people has never existed. Saatchi photographed a couple of young conservative supporters, and the images superimposed to create the impression of a huge file ...
Disappointed that he helped bring to power, Charles is involved in contemporary art and opened his first gallery in 1985, a large warehouse in North London, between St. John's Wood and Swiss Cottage. There he discovered artists like Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman and the famous YBAs, the Young British Artists of which he has won most of the works they leave college. It shows for the first time sliced shark preserved in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst and a molded frozen head by sculptor Marc Quinn, made of eight liters of his own blood and kept in a cooler transparent. Saatchi bought 13,000 pounds in 1991, he sold it 1.5 million pounds in 2005.
His gallery is too small to display all the artists large. He convinced the venerable Royal Academy to mount a coup. We are in 1997, the exhibition called "Sensation." Protesters camped in the courtyard of the museum for days. Ignite the tabloids. The Daily Mail as: "For over a thousand years, art is one of our great strengths. Today, sheep formalin threaten to make us barbarians. " The visitor discovers the artist Tracey Emin and his tent titled Everyone I Have Ever Slept with 1963-1995, in which his nude photo next to the names embroidered on the canvas, all her lovers and the two babies she aborted. Chris Ofili and the Black Madonna, portrait of a woman sprinkled with dried elephant dung, is also about him. Not to mention the Chapman brothers and mannequins of children with eyes, mouths, noses and ears have been replaced by rectum and penis. "Sensation" been around the world. The reputation of the Young British Artists is made, the fortunes of Saatchi too.
-By Fadi karnaby
