ART ART & STYLE MAGAZINE  

 

DECADENCE OF ART IN GREAT BRITAIN

 ART TURKEY OF THE YEAR

The most tasteless and shameful art show of the year were the Saatchi Modern Art Shows in England (The London’s Tate Modern Art Show). Saatchi was the character, impresario, director, curator and producer of those notorious shows where he displayed toilet seats, genital organs, rats, rodents tails and faces, and disfigured human bodies as art masterpieces. The shows became an English sensation generating over $9Million in revenues and sales.  

Photo: Extras auditioning in the nude for Saatchi Show in London. Approximately 150 participants took part in the nude auditions.

Charles Saatchi is a man who assiduously cultivates his own myth. Removing yourself from the ordinary channels of communication, refusing interviews, absenting yourself from openings and parties is not so much normal shyness as a way of producing narratives of power and influence. In the past few years, as some in the London art world have claimed he was losing his sure touch as a discoverer of young art, he has taken steps to ensure that his reputation as the man who discovered Damien Hirst is written into history. Now he is about to unveil a monument to himself as patron of modern British art. When rumors first circulated that Saatchi planned to close his London gallery in St John's Wood and open his own museum in County Hall, a brisk walk upstream from the colossally successful Tate Modern, the very idea seemed stupendous. Saatchi's new gallery is an open defiance of Tate Modern and Tate director Nicholas Serota; it sounded megalomaniacal even for him. Saatchi modern art collection shares space in County Hall with, amongst others, a five-star Marriott hotel, a two-star Travel Inn, the FA Premier League Hall of Fame, the London Aquarium, the Diana Princess of Wales memorial fund, and the Dali Universe.  

  

 

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