Saachi
After a very rainy, cold, long, journey if you will, from the Serpentine Gallery to The Saachi Gallery, we finally arrived. I drugged by soaked boots from gallery to gallery, having pieces of My Name is Charles Saachi and I Am An Artoholic mulling about in my mind. I looked for "unmonumental" trends and found them without a doubt. I must say, Saachi is slacking, very few, if any of the artist, have the draw factor of a Hirst or and Emin, which I think I enjoy about the artists Saachi sensationalizes. He is in advertising, and I was really expecting more of edge, or sensational aspect, but really it mostly fell short. However it was not all for not, I did see some things that were notable:
I found these to be particuarly touching, and just emanating a Latin American essence, that seemed kitschy in its European setting. Upon reading read the little pink Picture By Picture guide I found that I was 100% correct. Garrido-Lecca was utilizing the the iconography of the death cult_ure from her Peruvian heritage.
Olivia Plender
I found these to be a feat for the graphic medium, in a sort of Roy Lechtinestein with a lo-fi kitsch undertone. She used a B-rated aesthetic to articulate her concepts literally, with the potential of "zine" style distribution, as well as housed in the high art space.
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Maaike Schoorel used washed color, they look in a lot of ways like a large scale water colour, which i would like to pose as post-modern impressionism // Nick Gross canvases were brown washes relying heavily on masked linear aspects, to that the negative lines would dictate the eye to realize shapes. I would like to pose this as referential of cubism.
Steve Bishop
Appears to be the British poster child for what i was looking for in "unmonumentality." A kind of couture sculptural collages (pun intended) A sloppy appropriated style, with hits of self conciseness awareness of status, material, and dialogue between them.
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