Charles Saatchi: Sharks are good, and feces artists - too

[Mark]

The art of collecting art

Once one of the most successful advertisers, and now a gallery owner, the most influential collector and expert on the search for the young and potentially trendy artists, Charles Saatchi - non-public person. However, in September 2009, Phaidon Publishing will release the book "My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic" ( "My name is Charles Saatchi, and I iskusstvogolik"), from which we can draw a lot of interesting things about the world of contemporary art and collecting.

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Selected replica Saatchi from the book published weekly The Observer. Lenta.ru offers an abridged translation of the material.
- About the same time as you talk about "superkollektsionere" and as "the most successful art dealer of our time." How would you describe their activities with an eye on the past twenty years?

- What is the difference, as they say about me. Collectors - people are quite insignificant in the general world order. What matters is art, and it continues to exist. I buy art that I like. I bought it and show at fairs. If I want, I'm selling one and buying another. Since I am doing it for thirty years, the other people in the art world, the idea caught. The fact that I sell something that does not mean that I stopped loving it. I just can not keep myself from everything and always.

- Your way to buy the work of novice artists proved surprisingly contagious, and it was felt that this has had the biggest impact on the market at present: veterans and newcomers follow your example and buy things young, virtually unknown artists. You will take responsibility for it, in general, the speculative state of the market?

- I hope so. Artists need a lot of collectors, all sorts of collectors who will buy their stuff.

- And you did not spoil the life of anyone, criticizing all of his work?

- I do not buy art to make happy artists, as well, and do not sell work in order to disappoint them. Are not you melodramatic?

- Brings a love for art, especially Renaissance or related to the Bible, to God?

- Seems to me that God must be very unhappy with their work. Humanity has proved decisively unable to evolve over the years, we are all the same idiots and barbarians, they were many centuries ago, and the poor, God is probably shaking his head all day, watching our vileness and general worthlessness. However, perhaps we amused him. But, of course, I hope that the Lord like our art enough to forgive us our sins. Especially mine.

- Who of artists was your most pleasant discovery?

- I was so fortunate that over the years has seen many artists early in their path, and could say that it was "pleased" to open it. But I have "discovered" a lot of artists, to which no one except me, was not the case, and their career took shape very slowly, if at all folded. So I just do not possess an infallible gift of detecting the winners. But it would be fair to say that I bought of Cindy Sherman in the first exhibition of her participation ... I got most of the works from the first exhibition of Jeff Koons ... But all this bragging, but really, I missed as much good artists, as found.

- Is it true that the better to invest in paintings than in the shark in formaldehyde? Hirst Shark somehow poduvyala now, but the canvas by Peter Doig is good as well as ten years ago, and restore it will be easier.

- The investments are no rules. Sharks are good, and feces artists too. Oil on canvas, too, fail. There is always a team of restorers, to look after the fact that the artist considered it art.

- What is the British art of the early XXI century will be the price of a hundred years? Who will survive the test of time?

- Introductory books on art in 2105 would be just as ruthless to the end of XX century, as all previous centuries. All but Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Damien Hirst, will fall only in the footnotes.

- If you ordered a portrait of himself, what technique?

- I szhuyu canvas rather than give myself to write on it.

- Are you pushing their children to study your collection, and to march to museums and galleries?

- My kids think that having anything to do with my gallery - it's not cool. But the shop in the gallery they like.

- Whether countries should spend money to save the old masters to the people, or to buy the work of the new generation?

- At the risk of being lynched by a crowd of people of art, I still say that there is no great need to save pictures from the new art. What is the difference, where hang Titian - National Gallery, the Louvre or the Uffizi? It is not XVIII century, people are traveling, and need not be a nationalist to the treasures of world art. Is important to support living artists.

- What is your favorite museum? "

- Madrid Prado. I love Goya. And this museum is so unpretentious, so he obviously likes to show his numerous masterpieces very modestly, that every visit there only reinforces my belief in the intrinsic value of art.

- True, pictures with circles [Damien Hirst] similar to the wallpaper?

- You can still say that Rothko's paintings look like nice rugs. There is nothing wrong in the decorative arts.


About the artists
Studying the great works of art, you will probably find that the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different from you and me. So let's leave the talk of temperamental, is absorbed and absurd babies. A good artist - the most difficult work, which only you can choose, and do so only slightly crazy people. I love them all.


On collectors
No matter how suspicious of their motives, whatever they are climbing up the social ladder, as it not make sense nor were their efforts to beautify the walls, I was fascinated by the fact that rich people from time to time to buy contemporary art, rather than race horses, antique cars , jewelry or yacht. Without them, the art world would have led the State ...


The critics
Art criticism from some British newspapers could easily spend my life working in sections about gardening or traveling. This is because that newspaper editors do not spend much time on the reviews section and generally not very interested in art. And it turns out that we critics fall into an ecstasy of product respectability which adopted by consensus, and first-class exhibition. Ten years ago, they did not pay attention to the artist or ridiculed him.

Source: Lenta.ru
http://lenta.ru/articles/2009/08/31/saatchi/

[SergeiSK]

And more interesting information about Saatchi.
Charles Saatchi, a founder of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, admitted in his new book that borrows its first advertising slogan from an old magazine with advertising. This newspaper The Sunday Times.
According to Saatchi, about 50 years ago when he devised an advertising slogan for the poultry factory Thornber Chicks in Yorkshire, he needed ideas, and he was flipping through old American magazines. In one of the books he came across on advertising in 1901 for the Packard Motor Car Company called "Ask the person to whom they belong" ( "Ask the man who owns them"). "And my client bought it," - says Saatchi.
Charles Saatchi began work in the advertising business at age 17 from a position of a clerk in a small advertising agency Max Ritson in central London. In his autobiography, which comes out on September 8 this year, Saatchi wrote: "I encourage everyone to engage in advertising, especially if you have no academic education."

[SAH]

Сообщение от Mark

But, of course, I hope that the Lord like our art enough to forgive us our sins. Especially mine.

Remarkably, in my opinion.

Сообщение от Mark

O collectors
No matter how suspicious of their motives, whatever they are climbing up the social ladder, as it not make sense nor are their attempts to decorate the walls, I'm fascinated by the fact that rich people from time to time to buy contemporary art, rather than race horses, antique cars, jewelry and yachts. Without them the world of art was guided to the State ...

Very lively, positive outlook

[Meister]

quote from an interview with Saatchi magazine "Journal des Arts" in 2004: "snobbery of those who think that art is only available starry-eyed, I just laugh. God willing, none of the actors of the art market has never joins the estetatam.

[Черномашенцев Владимир]

Recently, members of this forum Adamovich has posted a new entry in his diary.

Recommend.

Personally, I fully agree with the definition Adamovich situation on the art market and art. 20 century gave new directions in art, but do not call them the old word "painting". As an advertising designer should not be called "artist" and an advertising agent - a collector.

Pena settles, fashion will take place, investors will record losses ... As it was already more than once. Alas, ekstrementy very difficult to restore.

[Евгений]

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[Yaya]

And it seemed to me remarkable that despite the fact that its Hurst, by and large, tossed, he believes AX great artist. This is amazing!

[Mark]

Сообщение от Yaya

But it seemed to me remarkable that despite the fact that its Hurst, by and large, tossed, he believes AX great artist. This is amazing!

Yaya, then that Saatchi said that he considered H. great artist, does not mean that he thinks so. However, this statement adds weight to it, as discoverer "geniuses".

[Yaya]

Mark, yes, but he openly admits that many missed

[Mark]

Сообщение от Yaya

Mark, yes, but he openly admits that too many missed

For more geniuses with our oligarchs simply not enough money. So let him sleep peacefully ...