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Adelaide Set To Host Saatchi Gallery Exhibition

The Art Gallery of South Australia will mount its largest exhibition this month straight from London’s internationally acclaimed Saatchi Gallery.

Art Gallery of South Australia Director, Nick Mitzevich, says that Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now will be the largest exhibition of British contemporary art shown in over a decade in Australia, and the first by the Saatchi Gallery to visit our shores.

‘The Art Gallery of South Australia will be the only Australian venue to display and celebrate this must-see exhibition, curated by the Saatchi Gallery’s team, which is set to engage and fascinate the Australian art audience’, says Mr Mitzevich.

‘The high profile Saatchi Gallery has be arguably the biggest influence on contemporary British art during the past 25 yeas, and has spectacularly succeeded in its aim to bring contemporary art to the wisest audience possible.’

British Art Now will showcase works from its collection by over 40 of the UK’s most important and challenging emerging contemporary artists, and will occupy over half of the Gallery space when it goes on show for three months from July.’

Saatchi Gallery Chief Executive Nigel Hurst says that Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide and the Saatchi Gallery’s collaboration with the city of Adelaide and the Art Gallery of South Australia presents a wonderful opportunity to bring contemporary British art in the Saatchi Gallery’s collection to a new audience.

‘This is the very first time in Australia for the Saatchi Gallery and this young group of artists. The Art Gallery of South Australia is clearly embracing contemporary art and this exhibition seems like a very natural meeting of hearts and minds,’ says Mr Hurst.

The Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now exhibition will run at the Art Gallery of South Australia from July 30 until October 23 2011.

 

For more information visit the Art Gallery of South Australia web page,

http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/

 

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