Visiting the Saatchi gallery

Another absolutely freezing day! We grabbed a bus down to Chelsea (very lovely, and very posh area) to see the inaugural exhibition at the new premises of the Saatchi Gallery.

Formerly at County Hall (where we now live, though we never saw it here), the gallery moved to the big and breezy Duke of York's HQ, near Sloane Square, in October 08. We thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition of new Chinese art, The Revolution Continues: New Art From China, with its odd, yet engrossing displays...

Cityscapes made out of animal hides:

A lifelike, life-size replica of the artist face-down and flat-out on the floor, with his tongue sticking to the floorboards:

 

Classical statues avec wooden pitchforks:

A big chrome blog:

Some scribblings, including Anna's name:

Not pictured: a giant poo made out of melted toy soldiers, half of a giant head made out of some kind of grit, a giant man lying on a giant bed, a number of people suspended from the roof, a eerily realistic 'fallen angel' with giant chicken wings, and room full of thirteen realistic life-size figures of elderly world leaders colliding with each other in moving electric wheelchairs...