Charles Saatchi has been one of the moving forces of the modern
age, he is the most important art collector of our time and he has
vigorously shaped the contemporary art scene while contradictorily
remaining a reclusive, even elusive figure who famously refuses to
be interviewed. He was selected by the BBC as one of 60 ‘New
Elizabethans’ who have most influenced the past 60 years.
Charles Saatchi founded the global advertising agency Saatchi &
Saatchi in 1970 which grew to become the largest agency in the
world. At the same time Saatchi began collecting art and later
opened his first gallery a 30,000 square foot ex-paint factory in
Boundary Road, London. His exhibitions have always focused on
contemporary artists and Saatchi’s Sensation exhibition of Young
British Artists in 1997 at the Royal Academy, London and at the
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York sparked an explosion of
controversy.
The 70,000 square foot Saatchi Gallery in the Duke of York’s HQ
Kings Road is one of the largest showcases of contemporary art in
the world. It has hosted ten of the fifteen most visited
exhibitions in London in the Art Newspaper annual museum visitor
surveys and is amongst the five most popular museums in the world
on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google Plus.
'A fascinating and thoroughly rewarding collection.' New Statesman
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