- Charles Saatchi, why are there no Israelis in your show "Unveiled: New Art From The Middle East"?
- Good question.
The Saatchi brothers were born into a family of Iraqi Jews in Bagdad and created in 1970 Saatchi & Saatchi, the most sparkling advertising agency in London. The Saatchi Gallery has been opened by Charles in 1985 and it's still considered as a major influence on contemporary art. Using art in selling the most power hungry psychopaths or combining politics and media headlines to sell art - used to be a very successful business strategy in the 80's. Is is still useful to rate art with any type of politically offensive shock value as "exciting" to increase pricing of new contemporary art pieces? Or the mood for political advertising of art has passed?
"Whatever you think, think the opposite". Paul Arden
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