London via my iPhone: Saatchi Gallery

The Saatchi Gallery

a must while walking on King's Road or as I did after a nice lunch at the Gallery Mess

With all due respect for all the artists exhibiting at the Saatchi Gallery below are some of the art pieces I enjoyed the most

David Altmejd

Canadian Artist from Montreal

not sure if you all know that I lived in Montreal for almost 13 years, hence was very keen for his art :)

The New North

made out of wood, foam, expandable foam, resin, paint, magic-sculpt, magic smooth, glue, mirror, horse hair, quartz crystals

David Altmejd

The Healers

2008

wood, foam, plaster, burlap, metal wire, paint

Very interesting piece as what you first see is not what it seems but a more in depth thought about life, death, love, sex and much more...

I leave you to take a look and interpret

hence the reason I took so many pictures...

Another angle from The Healers

another one...

one more...

and the last one from The Healers

In another room we can admire...

Dirk Skreber

Untitled (Crash 2)

2009

Black Hyundai Tiburon 2001

Dirk Skreber

Untitled (Crash 1)

2009

Red Mitsubishi Eclipse Spider 2001

Women Changing India

A photographic exhibition commissioned by BNP Paribas in order to celebrate 150 years in India.

It combines the talents of Magnum Photos and Zubaan, a New Delhi-based publishing house specialising in books by and about women in South Asia.

'Women are natural leaders: not only within their own communities but in the country as a whole'

Aruna Roy

'When a woman starts earning, it changes the power balance in the home and the world'

Laila Tyabji

'We need to hire more women, increase the intake, but change is a process that takes time'

Chanda Kochlar

Namaben Bijal Marwara, master embroiderer from the Meghwar community at the office of KMVS at Mundra.

She has been a memeber of KMVS for 17 years

Kutch, Gujarat

'The film world is truly democratic: religion, caste and gender don't matter, just our ability to deliver'.

Farah Khan

Richard Wilson, born 1953, is one of Britain’s most renowned sculptors.

The gallery is filled to waist height with recycled engine oil, from which the piece takes its name. A walk way leads from a single entrance, leading the viewer into the space until they are surrounded by oil on all sides.

The impenetrable, reflective surface of the oil mirrors the architecture of the room exactly, placing the viewer at the mid-point of a symmetrical visual plane.

Roger Hiorns

Untitled

2010

Polyurethane, polyester and brain matter

Roger Hiorns

Cooper Sulphate Chartres & Copper Sulphate Notre-Dame

1996

Folkert de Jong

The Dance

2008

Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam, artificial gemstones

Folkert De Jong

Seht der Mensch; The Shooting Lesson

2007

7 figures

Rebecca Warren

Croccioni

2000

Reinforced clay on 2 painted MDF plinths

Rebecca Warren

10-4

2004

Painted unfired clay and plinth

Rebecca Warren

SHE

2003

6-part installation

Rebecca Warren

SHE - No. 6

2003

Unfired clay, MDF & wheels

Matthew Brannon

Nevertheless

2009

Wood, steel, aluminium, string, glass, sintra, bulsa foam, acrylic paint, enamel paint, canvas, soap, mouse trap, sound cancelling device, water from a melted ice sculpture