Young Saatchi

Hello everyone,

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while ICT GCSE is stressing me out. Today me and a group of other girls from my school who study Art when to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, SW London. Very posh area ;) The main purpose of the art trip was to form an acquaintance with the Saatchi Gallery and represent the young people inputting what goes on in the Famous Art Gallery which is free for the public to view ad has Free Family Days.

At the moment there is a Russian exhibition on revealing  Russian artists work after the Soviet Union Collapsed. I found it so interesting to look and intriguing to find out the story behind the art works.

I was in a rush this morning with hair and make up so I totally forgot to add accessories, sorry!

Obvs me and Jeevi HAD to to take pics for my blog and instagram etc.

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This was one of the past pieces we saw but it caught my eye immediately  I love the hues of blues, the clouds in the background and the 1 point perspective graphic effect.

 

Jeevi <3 with her Ruby woo lipstick

Superwoman

Nails: 

Misa Cherry Glaze, Rimmel London Lycra Pro 397 Beige Babe, Rimmel London Lycra Pro 421 Clearly Clear 

On my right hand I did my thumb the red/pink colour.

This rope was just dangling from a hole in the ceiling in a room detached from the main exhibition room and it was just laying there so silently abstract.

We love you Mr. Rope

Sergie Vasiliev

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encylopedia Print 

The extensive range of designs made by prisoners onto their skin. These homemade tattoos, scraped and inked into skin with melted book heels, urine or blood, contained a whole range of coded messages against the Soviet regime and about the prisoners’ individual crimes.

Gallery 1 was one of the best!

I love it the most because of the further meaning of these black and white photographs, basically the story behind these are prisoner in Russia would have a "Tattoo Encyclopedia " on their body and each of the tattoo tell a story and I found this so inspirational. 

The tattoo designs were individual to the person and their crimes, the tattoos were done to show secret rebellion against the Soviet union (Knee tattoos to shows they will not kneel down to the authorities), Cat if they were a burglar, Various symbols to show how many people they had murdered or how many crimes they had committed.

Yelena Popova

Balance Of Probabilities

With their transparent, softened geometric forms, Yelena Popova’s paintings recall the graphics and aesthetics of both Russian Constructivism and Minimalism, and open up conversations about the materiality of painting today. 

Valery Koshlyakov

Valery Koshlyakov’s large-scale cardboard paintings, collages and installations – sometimes hanging from the ceiling, sometimes made out of sticky tape placed 

directly onto the gallery walls – irreverently engage with ideas of empire. 

Covered in paint drips, his flattened-box panels are blown-up postcard images of state-approved classical and monumental European architecture that have more in common with street art than with photorealistic obedience. They look wet, urgent, quickly rendered, and they show his iconic subjects, from a Soviet stadium to a gothic cathedral, as a madman’s fantasy.

These pieces are just so fascinating how they are made of scraps of cardboard and created using a limited paint palette. The thing I love the most is that this artist used the cardboard in it's raw form, for example he allowed the previous cardboard text to show, stabbed the cardboard and he has ripped layers of the cardboard away to show the corrugated side. 

I like how this student had edited these photographs by sectioning them into circles therefore rotating some of the photo looking distorted. 

 I hope you enjoyed this post of my day at the Saatchi Gallery and did you recognize that this outfit was the one I tried on in the H&M Changing room in my A Girly day out Shopping with Lauren *snow post in January and I ended out buying the whole outfit.

Katherine xoxo