Special Issue Saatchi

[LCR]

Swiss newspaper Le Temps has released an application dedicated to Charles Saatchi. I translated two of the three articles, which can, in my opinion, of interest to you. The third article speaks mainly about eating habits Saatchi and his (well-tailored) suit - I think you will manage without her.

Le Tan, 5 November 2008
Florence Gaillard

Saatchi Collection, the Empire in the art-business

For thirty years, the British promoter complements and modifies its huge collection. His story truly reflects evilyutsiyu market in which hybridize artistic, financial and cultural interests at the highest level.

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If Damien Hirst did not met with Charles Saatchi in the late 80's., He probably would not have enough money to immerse the shark in formalin killed with a well-known to all success. When a predator is encountered with the other, or they can kill each other, or gang up and together to achieve success. Provocative Profile Hirst and Saatchi promotional talents complemented each other. Receipt «Turner Price» (the most important prize in the arts in the UK) in 1995, Hearst must Saatchi, who was a committee of its award, and was a member of numerous museum boards, that is gray cardinal of the world of contemporary art. This award is made Hirst famous, respectively, the prices jumped. Saatchi has resold its job Hirst with phenomenal profits, further raising its quotation.

At what point patron becomes a shark, where the boundary between the collector and speculator? Saatchi, of which the artist Sean Sulla said that he "loves art as the wolf loves the lamb, spit on such thoughts. He does not like collectors angel, who buy to keep, and did not hesitate. "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 aesthetes "- he said in an interview in« Journal des Arts »in 2004

Have tremendous power, a dangerous rival in the market, Saatchi has a reputation as a "super collector", nabob, a man opredelayuschego trends and one of the ten most influential people in the world of contemporary art. Suffice it to look at any job to its price immediately rose. About him write pamphlets, he is annoying, he was hated, feared, admired. What distinguishes him from other rich people investing in the market of art? The speed with which he makes decisions, and the field activities, which is located near the beginning of the chain leading from the artist to the end customer. He is looking for artists, has just hatched from the shell, which no one has noticed. "This is also a form of art" - says one of his admirers.

Appetite for Saatchi cannibal - he buys a huge number of things, very cheap, almost wholesale prices and resells them for a lot of money, which immediately puts in other purchases. But he also exhibited his collection - Saatchi Gallery, located in three different locations in London, is a private museum which avtofinansiruetsya, and in its influence and attendance can compete with such national museums, for example, Tate Modern, the meeting which he supplements . Saatchi wants his museum faithfully reflects the latest trends in art. He readily spoke about Tate Modern, as the old lady with a slow reaction.

It all started in the 70's, when Saatchi and his first wife began to buy works of American and German artists - pop art, minimalism, abstract painting. Thus, he was one of the first to buy Warhol, Sol Levitte, Bruce Newman, Richard Serra, then Jeff Koons. "I was absolutely astonished by white space, which resembled a snowstorm" - recalled the first Hirst Saatchi gallery in north London. "Before this, the British art almost non-existent. Since then, as Saatchi began operations, there were great names, great American artists, great space. The scale has changed. It was a real revolution. «Saatchi Gallery» was like another planet, this is my favorite gallery in the world.

In the 90's. Saatchi escaped from the works of American artists to begin investing in the young and rather extravagant, to say "bonkers" students of art schools. They formed a group of Young British Artists (YBA - Young British Artists), patron, buyer and promoter of which became Saatchi. When it came to fame, the members of this group was about 25 years. The most famous of them are Hirst, skinned animal carcasses, Sarah Lucas, Tracy Emin, putting his own bed, around which lay her knickers and used condoms, Chapman brothers, who were amused by the fact that depicted male genitals, grow from the eyes of young girls. Artists YBA brings pathological craving for intima, sex, undisguised violence. Saatchi still keeps in its collection of some of the artists of this generation, culminating in the fate of which was a large exhibition «Sensation». In 1997, but most of it sold, for example, one of the works of Mark Quinn, bought for 13,000 pounds, ten years later was sold for 1.5 million pounds.

Such transactions annoying of all - observers, museums, which lacked the funds to purchase new works, and even the artists themselves, who believe that Saatchi is betraying them. Speaking about Saatchi, Hirst has called him a "pathological buyer, sick money." Italian artist Sandro Kia publicly expressed his indignation, when Saatchi sold its job Kia, believing that he sank her. "Saatchinoyya" has reached such a scale that in 2004, when the warehouses in which he kept his collection, were burned, many accused him of arson, schytiaya that he would thus get rid of it fully satisfied the works, without prejudice, after receiving the insurance company's compensation, which he invested in "new blood".

Money? "I must confess that I do not think about them for the simple reason that I'm incredibly rich. I buy the work of beginning artists or those whom I progladel - which happens quite often, because I do not go anywhere. And if I have to pay ten times more expensive than the market value of work, I agree to do so. For me, it is important to have works from which we can make the most beautiful show in the world "- Saatchi said in an interview he gave to the newspaper« Guardian ».

Saatchi reiterates that its sales, bringing him a large profit, allow it to invest in other artists to make new names and all the time to update his collection. He readily uses quite bloodthirsty formulas and inonicheski compares himself to a vampire. "I do not focus on any model, I am completely devoid of romantic attachment to the past. If I left everything I bought, I would like Citizen Kane, surrounded by their treasures. I need to know that I owned and exhibited their masterpieces. Finding very-very new art - that's what I can do better "

This collector "very, very new art" spending all his time running around the filthy warehouses, it is unlikely vkartalov east London galleries, exhibitions at art schools, and now on the Internet. After his players - artists YBA - became famous, he has a new goal - to find a replacement. Who put it? Saatchi, the only time in history collector, who initiated the artistic movement that began to look for. He found other young artists who worked in London, and brought them under the title "neurotic New Realists." They include Ron Mück and David Falconer, bestial and the successor of decaying stems Hirst, who makes sculptures out of dead mice ...

But this time the effect of "Saatchi" had no such success. Then, I suppose, tired of kakashek, dead insects and all sorts of terrible visions, our strategist, announced the Great Return of painting. Now Saatchi, who is often criticized that he - shaper of questionable taste, not invent a new trend. Then he was accused that he was no longer deals with the fact, why it is reproached for so far. Some saw in it a new orientation quite simply a strategy of diversification ( "Painting is currently undervalued, so let's buy it!"). Among the artists whom he exhibited in his gallery in County Hall in 2003. Martin Kippenberger and Peter Doig, immediately after the exhibition has reached record prices. Do I need to explain that these records were achieved in the sale of works owned by Saatchi?

This autumn, the Saatchi Gallery moved to grand new premises in Chelsea. Now, according to the right hand Saatchi, Nigel Hurst, the collection consists of 2,500 works. What can we put in this new room? One hundred works? Frankly, even less. Museum - a tip of the iceberg, but it is a wonderful shop window.

At the first exhibition at the new place exclusively show of Chinese artists. The following artists will be exhibited from India. Interestingly, Saatchi, which claims to be the global collector completes its meeting on geographical grounds. Currently, he makes his purchases in Asia - like everyone else. He cooperated with the auction house Phillips de Pury & Co, is very active in the markets of Asia and more recently gone under Russia's control. On the second floor, above the gallery, auction house has a hall, where he could organize their own exhibitions, and the financing of the auction house enables visitors to get free admission. Thus, there were submitted to extensive work by American artist Julian Schnabel, an old acquaintance Saatchi, first put it in Europe, before they quarreled. Next to the gallery recently opened his own shop a publisher of books on art Tashenov. This mix of genres between the collector and director muzaya, an art dealer, auction house and publisher, has long no one is shocking, for thirty years, as the universe Saatchi operates in this way.

[Евгений]

Сообщение от LCR

Appetite for Saatchi cannibal - he buys a huge number of things, very cheap, almost wholesale prices and resells them for a lot of money, which immediately puts in other purchases.

Article is interesting, liked it.
But why cannibal? Normal, dealer appetite, helps to keep from starving artists .. He earns good money at this?, Young talent .. and author of the article, just "cannibal" .. do not agree with this assessment.

[LCR]

The second article

an infinite number of pictures on the web

For Saatchi is now the actual art goes back to the East. His site is in English and Chinese has reached gigantic proportions and has become a global forum for students of schools of fine art, artists and potenuialnyh buyers

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In the world there gallery at the same time exhibited works 100000 artists, gallery, in which students of the school of fine arts Buenos Aytsresa can posvstrechatsya with Korean videastom and talk about the latest market trends and the influences under which fall within each of them. This virtualnyya gallery of Charles Saatchi - a real Tower of Babel, where talk of contemporary art in all languages, and which is growing faster than the Chinese mega-cities. However, the site is translated into Chinese language - the actual art goes back to the East.

It all started as a temporary solution, but not as a grand project. The thing that was planned period of several months between the closing in 2003, the gallery is placed in the district du County Hall, and the opening of new premises in Chelsea. This break every inhale, and ultimately, the new facility was opened just over 3 years. And in anticipation of a magnificent new premises, opened in October, the Saatchi gallery could not afford to completely disappear from the artistic landscape.

How to keep a shop window? "I absolutely knew nothing about the Internet, it's not my generation. My fourteen-year-daughter called me a "fossil" - Saatchi says, coyly playing in the old man. In the beginning we wanted to just make one page to specify the location and hours of work organizing the gallery. Just such silly things, you know, and then ... This page has become so, what is it now "- he shrugs, as if to say:" What can I do? ". World of Art consists of 1000 artists, which focused the attention of all. However, in the world there are thousands of artists who have never had the opportunity to show their work. This site is intended for them. "

For the artists potentially - it is an opportunity to cross the vast distance that separates the art school of the workshop, from the galleries, and zaetm gallery from the fair from buyers. For visitors to the site - it is fair art nadomu, as well as virtual trading as eBay. "Twenty years ago the threshold galleries shifting from the desire to open a young hudodzhnikov only dedicated to the public" - reads the inscription on the site, record them which regularly visits. "Here, shy people may consider the pictures for your pleasure. Our visitors can see works by artists - watch them on the screen is not the same thing to see them in reality, but that's another problem - they may come into contact with the artist and a bargain for his work, and neither the site nor the Saatchi gallery does not interfere this and does not require any fees.

«Ask Simon»

Virtual gallery Saatchi serves as a calendar and library - it focused on an impressive amount of information: the ongoing exhibition, art criticism, a review of the specialized press. Add a list of blogs of different personalities, videotaped interviews, reports on the opening day. Also add that many institutions - art centers, museums or private organizations - can be placed on the site information about its activities. Finally, the neophyte may join the bidding through the rudiments of the link, leading to the site of the auction house Phillips de Pury & Co, with which Saatchi gallery cooperated. One click on the "ask Simon" - and the auctioneer Simon de Pury is responsible to you through the footage thematic mini-video.

All that Saatchi was doing, he makes a big way - and, if possible, ahead of all others. The man who so often criticized in that it creates and destroys the market, using multiple names with hypertrophic Commercial value, given its name for the development of the first global picture. This - a new degree of accessibility of today's art. The number of visitors has increased steadily, as well as a database of potential buyers, Saatchi has become more famous, and of course, this can not affect his personal business - the logic completely irresistible.

Weekly selection

Yes, all this is so, but ... this site is democratic, global, open to all, but very quickly it became very congested. Any site like a newspaper, the city, the brain must organize your material. However, the ever-increasing avalanche of new data and compromise the structural and technical organization of the site. This explains the need to make selection and weekly coverage of certain segments of the data - those involved twelve teams of specialists Saatchi. It begins violated complete freedom of the platform, so visitors are beginning to focus, shape their tastes, that is, to create and destroy the market. But how can I avoid this?

Charles Saatchi regularly checks its new toy. "I spent hours behind the screen" - says this homebody. He recognizes that the truly interesting things are "not more than 10%of the total, but he can see the rare gems, which can put their pocket money. Very quickly the site started to enter the art critics and other "saatchemanyaki": this is a shark, nor is acutely aware of the benefits, select on your screen beginning artists and is now doing on a global scale what it had previously worked in the UK. Then our super-collector put a rule: do not take any part in this game. "I do not buy on the site. I just watch. Maybe it complies with its formal commitment, but maybe he buys through nominees or other obscure ways, but one way or another, it is clear that he does not forget about their own interests and looks far ahead. Saatchi predicts: "In ten years all the most famous names of the art world will come to this site.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/

[fross]

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esteemed LCR, we have 1000 times thank you for the useful material, please accept the same and my 1,001th and 1002nd thanks!

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