Saatchi turns to America for hot new talent
Forget Brit art – Charles Saatchi's looking to the US for new talent. We take a tour around his blockbuster summer show
26 May 2009
A SQUIDGY pile of putty with a comedy nose, and a melting ebony table that goes by the name of Bitch.
Ah, what else could it be but the newest offering at the Saatchi Gallery?
So far, in his spanking new King’s Road space, Charles Saatchi has given us revolutionary art from China, and hijabs and marigold gloves from the Middle East. Now his latest "hidden" hotspot of creativity is the US of A.
This summer’s blockbuster exhibition, Abstract America, showcases a new wave of young urban Americans whose art is rooted in the digital age.
Influenced by the abstract expressionism of their 50s predecessors (Jackson Pollock, de Kooning) they draw on the language and iconography of the 21st century, from Photoshop to YouTube and beyond.
It all ties in rather nicely with the recent Altermodern exhibition at Tate Britain, positing a new movement after postmodernism.
Saatchi spokeswoman Rebecca Wilson says: “They’re trying to make sense of the different realities people can inhabit in this digital age. They use everything from jpegs to internet-found images. It’s more than the postmodern mixing up of mediums – it’s now mashing up realities.”
Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery 29 May-13 Sep, saatchi-gallery.co.uk
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