Saatchi Gallery

This is a contact sheet composed from pictures that I took during a college trip to the Saatchi Gallery. The Gallery is a museum for contemporary art which was opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985 in order to exhibit his art to the public. The gallery has a mixed range of abstract art. This includes art made of everyday items and very surreal sculptures.

In order to construct this contact sheet, I visited the Newspeak - British Art Part 2 exhibit. This art show inlude several strange exhibits. Such as a room that has been filled with oil that is almost invisible to the viewer where there is a waist-deep walkway that extends into the room which to the viewer, one side of it looks completely invisible. There also many incredible sculptures that are crafted from everyday items such as two giant dogs that are made out of cardboard. In addition, there are also many sculptures that are made from traditional materials for sculpture making such as latex and wire, but display very surreal imagery. A very notable example is "Saddleback", a sculpture where two strange animals resembling pigs are attached to each other front-to-rear.

For my contact sheet, I chose an abstract exhibit where all pieces are made out of everyday items but focus more emphasis on the abstract nature of the artwork rather than the extravagance of other contemporary pieces such as the giant cardboard dogs. These pieces included several luminous mushroom shaped objects that seemed to be made from balloons, hexagonal glasses that were arranged in a honeycomb-style pattern and a giant digital clock fashioned out of many small clocks in which the hands make up the time on the digital clock. I am not sure of the names of the artists behind this exhibit. I chose it because i am fascinated with how the exhibit shows the art can be made from the smallest contemporary items.