…….the other day and decided to go to the Saatchi Art Gallery. We wanted to see the new exhibition, which has been very controversial. I really wanted to try and get my head around Charles Saatchi, who owns the Gallery. The reason….? The man has just been on a diet for 6 months eating nothing but 9 hard boiled eggs a day!!! He lost about 5 stone, ……I imagine he also lost a lot of friends – sulphurous eggs??? And he’s married to none other than the “Domestic Goddess” – Nigella Lawson – now surely if you are a successful foodie………. ???????? Anyway folks, please do NOT try this diet at home.
The new Saatchi Gallery is magnificent and we have nothing but admiration for a man who is so dedicated to art that he makes such fantastic exhibitions available at no charge to the public.
The current exhibition is called “The Revolution Continues” and is a collection of contemporary Chinese works. The first photo is an installation of iconic buildings which form a cityscape made out of ‘dog chews’ (You know, the things you can buy in the pet section of your local super market, usually made out of re-constituted pigs ears and such). We wandered through the galleries for several hours and when we came to the last one – gallery 13 – it was filled with lifelike replicas of notable past world figures in wheelchairs randomly moving slowly around the room, sort of dodgem like but more gently………
For us this created a sense of poignancy…..at the moment we are in a very sad work situation as our aged employers are nearing the end of their lives – the thing that struck me was that the wax figures looked rather too healthy.
The other thing was……. how come such a wealthy philanthropic man can’t find a decent dietician………..?????????
