Charles Saatchi - Can he always be a new? Can he remain relevant to new time?

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.uk

Ultra modern war or the time for an Überman

Man struggle to survive; Anyone might perish unless he of she has great resistance to death. The modernity made different the tools and methods of wars. Postmodern war is often cyber war, it's technologies is based on purely intellectual things, programming, conceptions. Sudden results could not be just the corpses, yet the humans - brain washed or their egos altered, they could even become unified by the same ideology. The logic, you can spread the one which is supreme really fast. This what Google has done to conquer their market.

The World Aftermodern might be a quite social and unified, humanity beyond national borders, entire society connected in the fashion of Internet, whose global reach makes it into a new weapon of a massive scale. Collective intelligence, a new life form, it could produce much more terrifying chaos either create amazingly new order almost for everyone in the matter of moments.

Perhaps, super intelligent society will face no physical war, unless purely technological. Yet, once the world reaches production level highly above possible needs, much of the war causing problems dissapear as an essentially emptied threads. Would it be a Neo-Communist or Post-Capitalist utopia, or we will face some king of absurd self-destruction reasoned by the absence for a further reason to exist, since everything was done?

We think physical wars unnesessary in the community with technology advanced enough to modify remotely behaviours, intentions and even actions of one living. Indeed it is a question for a new form of governance. Super power of new governance instead of a conflict; the rest - just left for the exchange of ideas and commodities.

The possibility of a quick death is a terrifying spot in someone's mind...unless we die we do not have a reason to exist, we might have only the emptiness of a pure eternity.

Beauty? What is that, how new it is. Do you still reacting to it? Than how would you describe a best Aftermodern weapon, just one to act beyond the borders.

Postmodern Art

Today we desided to re-launch Postmodern Art. We hoping this going to be an interesting resource for a wide audience interested  in postmodern art.

What is modern Art

What is modern is a foremost question for every modernism. Did Andy Warhol's depiction of a soup already became outdated? Is Damien Hirst remains Young British Artist or he should be deemed mid-age successful businessman for whom new art has lesser importance than his old bank account? Could all this art be lost in a timeflow? In decades of newer art, could this disappear completely? Everything is possible, who knows what technology and science will make to human society and development of human brain. Perhaps science could make almost everyone genius, than, what importance of something what was done in the past compared to something what could be made in the future or now. Withstand time is a most complicated task for an art, no, perhaps not only for art. Nothing is really eternal, even the Pyramids in Egypt have some limits of acceptance. With the new technology people could build more impressive things. But do they have desire?

There is always something new just around the corner. And art, it can't resist for some novelty every year. Even Picasso when he became old, he saw the rise of the new, and his own art became something of the past.

Artists, Part 2

Lida Abdul
Artist's website
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Artists website
Justine Cooper
Justine Cooper at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York
Gilbert and George
Gilbert and George at Brooklyn Museum
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Collection: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Antony Gormley
Artist's website
Subodh Gupta
At Palazzo Grassi
Tala Madani
Collection: The Saatchi Gallery, London
Marina Naprushkina
Works: Istanbul biennial
Hermann Nitsch
Artist's website
Cai Guo-Qiang
Documentary on PBS
Mika Rottenberg
Works at Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
Rudolf Stingel
Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art
Richard Tuttle
Exhibition: MCA Chicago
Group Voina
Article on performance
Mark Wallinger
Exhibition: Tate Britain, London

Piero Manzoni. Yue Minjun. Dana Schutz.

Different, but not a random names. They are all familiar to the gallery going public. The reason they reviewed together is a retrospective of art of Piero Manzoni, young, and suddenly deeply intellectual, at Gagosian. 2009 was an extremely simple year. We have choosen Manzoni show as a considerably best artistic event which took place in New York this year. Dana Schutz presence was noticeable during a several years, her faux-naive abstract-surrealist paintings obviously can hardly go unnoticed; Yue Minjun's art, indeed, is a mark for the new Epoch. However, we see a new wave of art from China that made art world totally different during just a few years.

Piero Manzoni has lived disappointingly short, but vibrant life that amazingly reflected in his art. His compact proto-conceptualist oeuvre stated more than a number of artists did during long decades of making art. Disregard the fact, that appreciation for enfant-terrible kind of art often is totally unfamiliar with the wider audience. His work possess an extremely rare kind of materialist beauty and have a complex intellectual message. The show was brilliantly orchestrated and, shall you seek for the aesthetics which is minimal, intellectual, and yes, simple, Manzoni's show was exactly that. Just a short remark; how difficult to find something as good as this Manzoni's exhibition was. Try to find the show without any sort of an art that represent maximalism or overgrown but not necessary ambition; just equilibrium of idea and form; that apparently played together in the fashion of Beethoven's sonata and let you think subconsciously about surreal worlds reminiscent to art of Jean Arp.

When i think about Dana Schutz, i probably start to remember nights spent at different places, sometime joyful, sometime sleepless because of a climate changes or mosquitoes around. Sometime, new experiences could be superb. What we always like is to fulfill desires; what we usually hate is impossibility to attain something really wanted. Sometime, her compositions not-all-the same good, as one expects. Sometime they poised to fulfill all of your visual desires. The questioning remains: is something what seemed attractive during the period of 6 years can attract same interest in the years ahead.

Yue Minjun. This several years were amazing years for China. China achieved something new in technology and society, something new and and extremely powerful in art. Chinese finally got the ability to produce mainstream art of a world level, new and truly own. This cynical realism made in China seem to belong to our time. One can't predict what awaits Chinese power in the next thousand years, we may be just guessing what's going to be next... Yue Minjun's "Execution", is a mark for a new epoch. Death of the old and beginning of the new. This is a years of a hard work that indeed resulted in his art.

Artists, Part 1

Ghada Amer
Ghada Amer at Cheim and Read, New York
Francis Bacon
Collection: Tate, London
Exhibition: Tate Britain, London
Banksy
Artist's website
Mattew Barney
The Cremaster Cycle
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Group exhibition at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Lee Bontecou
Collection: MoMA, New York
Maurizio Cattelan
Artist's website
Exhibition: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris
Nicholas Chistiakov
Artist's website
Conversation on Contemporary art
Martin Creed
Artist's website
Mark Dion
Works: Goodwater Gallery
Olafur Eliasson
Artist's website
Tracy Emin
Collection: The Saatchi Gallery
Nan Goldin
Works: Mattew Marks Gallery
Andreas Gursky
Works: Mattew Marks Gallery
Damien Hirst
Works: White Cube
Artist's website
Ilya Kabakov
Exhibition: Garage CCC
Mike Kelley
Exhibition: Day is Done, Gagosian Gallery
Jeff Koons
Artist's website
Exhibition: Jeff Koons at Versailles
Sol Levitt
Collection: MoMA
Yue Minjun
CNN Headlines
Andrei Molodkin
Russian Pavilion at Venice Biennale
Takashi Murakami
Exhibition: MoCA Los Angeles
Bruce Nauman
Works: Sperone Westwater
Pablo Picasso
Collection: Musee Picasso
Works: Gagosian Gallery
Richard Prince
Exhibition: Spiritual America - Guggenheim Museum
Neo Raush
Exhibition: David Zwirner
Gerhard Richter
Artist's website
Exhibition: Marian Goodman
Richard Serra
Collection: MoMA
Jeff Wall
Works: Marian Goodman
Andy Warhol
Warhol Museum
Works: Gagosian, New York
Aaron Young
Performance: Greeting Card

Top art collectors, according to ArtNews

Below is a very privileged group of people. Their income allows them to have anything. How does is feel to make connection with them and possibly sell some art? Indeed many artists probably approaching them on a daily basis with an idea to sell their art. But only a few privileged and more likely historical artists will be collected. Do you want to play this game on own risk? What is the chance to become a historical artist? one in one million? Maybe more. But the names here is given alphabetically and just because their spendings to art collecting is an undoubtedly tangible amounts of money. 

Juan Abelló
Roman Abramovich
Barbara and Ted Alfond
Paul Allen
Plácido Arango
Hélène and Bernard Arnault
Hans Rasmus Astrup
Maria Baibakova and Oleg Baybakov
Monique and Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller
Cristina and Thomas W. Bechtler-Lanfranconi
Leonora and Jimmy Belilty
Maria and William Bell Jr.
Debra and Leon Black
Neil G. Bluhm
Christian Boros
Frances Bowes
Irma and Norman Braman
Udo Brandhorst
Peter M. Brant
Edythe L. and Eli Broad

Annual list of top 200 art collectors according to ArtNews Magazine
http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2702