Saatchi Shows Veiled Women Made of Foil, Iran Sex-Worker Dolls
Bloomberg / Martin Gayford
30-Jan-2009 (one comment)

The new exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery makes one thing clear: Contemporary art is now a truly global phenomenon. Once, Charles Saatchi used to go truffle hunting in the artist studios of London; now, he can find what he likes just about anywhere in the world. “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East” (through May 6) is full of what you might call Saatchi-type art: brash, figurative, sometimes shocking. The mix is familiar. This is the kind of work he discovered in the London of the early 1990s and introduced to the public in the celebrated “Sensation” show of 1997. It was one of the triggers of the recent contemporary-art boom.

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ramintork

Navid, I covered this too

by ramintork on Sat Jan 31, 2009 01:25 AM PST

Perhaps the Middle Eastern Art in 2000-2020 is going to be the new Brit Art of the 90s for Saatchi.

There is a poetic quality and a sense of connection to history, culture and society in these works which seem to be lost in what is coming out of Western schools and the fact that it is the right time to buy has made people like Saatchi interested.

//iranian.com/main/news/2009/01/29/saatchi-gallerys-new-show-unveiled

 


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