Charles Saatchi has launched many of new endeavours. Beside his gallery what showing now a show of a sculpture - The Shape of Things to Come, he enjoys relatively popular SaatchiOnline and a few TV shows. Did many things changed since he was promoting Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin? Yes, a lot of things changed. New Saatchi is associated with a kind of quick-sensation and a bit creepy art which would be hard to sell otherwise you are Saatchi or Sotheby's Contemporary, whose year-by-year built reputation in the artworld allow to deal with many things in question. Also his choices became more than predictable and unlikely surprising. It's just like repeating one scheme once again with a bit different variables. Is it boring? Maybe, but how hard it is to do something by decades and still be active.
But i have to admit, according to a previously mentioned Google global interest to art has dropped almost twice since year 2004, interest to German "kunst" almost 3 times lower now, but in reverse there is incredible growth of interest to Google and other tech companies as well. Searches for Google rose above the skies. Same with Lady Gaga. Art has always been restricted to more limited and privileged public. But lack of the new and intriguing for public resulting in a decline of interest. (is Lady GaGa really new(couldn't agree) or she got just better publicist?) World crisis as well couldnt help art to rize. Everyone counting the budjet now.
What is Saatchi Online? Mass curated, by artists themselves, and what we got, what a mass of an artists means? What choices would you expect from median group of people interested in own craft if not selecting something same median to safely enjoy. This why i do not expect anything outstanding or crazy to reach to the top via showdown or by any way like this.
Will the interest to art rise again? Should it employ all new technologies beyond average to remain on top? Or can old good painting be made once again bit better and more time relevant, something what artists like Gerhard Richter has done not long ago.
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.ukBut i have to admit, according to a previously mentioned Google global interest to art has dropped almost twice since year 2004, interest to German "kunst" almost 3 times lower now, but in reverse there is incredible growth of interest to Google and other tech companies as well. Searches for Google rose above the skies. Same with Lady Gaga. Art has always been restricted to more limited and privileged public. But lack of the new and intriguing for public resulting in a decline of interest. (is Lady GaGa really new(couldn't agree) or she got just better publicist?) World crisis as well couldnt help art to rize. Everyone counting the budjet now.
What is Saatchi Online? Mass curated, by artists themselves, and what we got, what a mass of an artists means? What choices would you expect from median group of people interested in own craft if not selecting something same median to safely enjoy. This why i do not expect anything outstanding or crazy to reach to the top via showdown or by any way like this.
Will the interest to art rise again? Should it employ all new technologies beyond average to remain on top? Or can old good painting be made once again bit better and more time relevant, something what artists like Gerhard Richter has done not long ago.
