Monday 11 January 2010

Saatchi Gallery Shows

There is a great exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in South London at the moment, featuring contemporary Abstract American painting and sculpture. I'd never been to the Saatchi gallery until this weekend, it's off the chain despite my misgivings about the man's taste, very nice thick wooden floors (very important)

Aside from the american exhibition there is a room full of crude freaking oil! pictured above, it's gosh damn amazing. At first I though there was nothing in the room, nearly left with a scrunched up face, I've gone down to the Lower ground floor (LGF) for this bull shit? But then I realised it was a near magical room, the metal thing seems to just float and not really make optical sense...

4 comments:

Gareth Morgan esq. said...

i heard about the room full of oil. apparently the reflection is off the chain. did you see the thing with all the dead americans?

TOMthinks said...

i dont think so, what's that?
not the wheel chair thing is it?

Gareth Morgan esq. said...

na. some american artist has drawn a sketch and written a profile of every servicemen who has died. twas in the sunday times hence the inquiry.
ive never been but need to go.

TOMthinks said...

oh yeh of course, yeh saw that, was throughly impressive. although i found it a bit frustrating that you couldn't really read the comments she'd written on each picture.