http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/new_gallery_home.htmWe were there yesterday. The gallery, in the former Duke of York barracks were lovely on an amazingly sunny Sunday morning. (We went to church in the evening.) Not so sure about the new Chinese art. The iconoclasm that is so much a part of contemporary art is a bit odd in what is meant to be such a conformist culture.
Sun Yuan ad Peng Yu's Old Folks Home with 13 wheelchairs with waxwork old men (none Chinese)
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/yu_yuan.htm?section_name=china_art was striking as the public walked among them.
I think the other half said creepy. He noticed the watches on the figures wrists were working.
I made the mistake of looking up the above link while listening again to bbm on CD review. I wondered what on earth had happened to George Benjamin.
