ART★AMY: Visiting Saatchi Gallery in London

Saatchi Gallery is a must-go gallery in London. I spent almost 2 hours and more there. There was a variety of artworks with different forms and styles! I’m sure that there would have something which interests you! Click here to see their news and plan your visit now.

5 Sculptures were made by iron which are outside the gallery - Guardianes 2010 byXavier Mascaró, who lives and works in Madrid. A lot of sculptures by Mascaró with traditional casting techniques have exhibited in Los Angeles, Madrid, New York and Paris. Those five sculptures look exactly the same with each other. What I like most is how Mascaro made them look so old and antique, and they really look like some treasure from 100,000 decade ago in China.

Site-specific oil-installation 20:50, used sump oil and steel, dimensions variable, was first created by Richard Wilson in 1987 and was shown as a permanent installation atSaatchi Gallery. Wilson lives and works in London who is one of Britain’s famous sculptor and installation artist. When I first saw this installation, I found it really futuristic. I like the reflection from the oil and I believed that it was a huge mirror instead at the very first beginning. It looks really amazing.

Antonio Malta Campos is a Brazilian artist who is specialized in painting. You can see he began with a single pattern in his artwork, and transparencies of each colour layers made light and shadow stand out. I really like his geomagnetic painting and how he mix-and-matches the colours and it looks really extraordinary because of the forms, transparencies and also colour combination.

Antonio Malta Campos
Black & Blue
2007
Acrylic on canvas
230 x 360 cm

Another paintings by Antonio Malta Campos is presenting the soundless conversation between a couple in a painting with the effect of abstract and figurative elements. Again, the colour combination of these two art pieces are brilliant.

Antonio Malta Campos
Figures in Red
2004
Oil on canvas
230 x 360 cm

Antonio Malta Campos
Figures in Red #2
2004
Oil on canvas
230 x 360 cm

This is one of my favourite mixed media artwork from the whole gallery which is made by Aboudia, who is from Abidjan and works there as well. I think that the oversized skulls are his symbol and you could actually see a lot of skulls in his painting, which I found it really interesting as he put a wide range of colours on his paintings, but they still look depressing rather than happy.

Aboudia
Enfants dans la Rue 2
2013
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
125 x 200 cm

I was speechless when I saw the installations of hundreds (or more) of sculptural giant ants in a spacious room which is specially only for them. They are just too real, especially when you took a closer on each of them. I thought I was in a film production studio in Hollywood. Rafael Gómezbarros, who made them all alive because he is intended to let us know that we should be aware of death of violence. He also exhibited them onto some historical buildings before. The effect wouldn’t be so good if there was only one ant in a room, I think this is just insane when they come together. How awesome they are.

Rafael Gómezbarros
Casa Tomada
2013
Resin, Fiber Glass, Madera, Screen Cotton, Cuerda Arenas, Cerrejón Coal
Body:50 x 20 x 50; Legs 90 x 50 cms

In the following pictures are some photographs by Davide Monteleone, is an Italian editorial photographer who pursues his long-term personal projects. He won numerous awards because of his personal projects, including various World Press Photo prizes and several grants like “Aftermath” and the European Publisher Award. The pictures he took in black-and-white made thing clear and precise.