My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic
Everything You Need To Know About Art, Ads, Life, God And Other Mysteries And Weren't Afraid To Ask
Charles Saatchi
- One of the most influential art collectors of our time and founder of the global advertising agency, Charles Saatchi answers questions about art, collecting and his personal life
- Famously reclusive, he has answered with brutal frankness questions put to him by journalists, critics and the general public
- With unflinching honesty he reveals his opinions on collecting, artists, dealers, advertising, how to invest in art and his favourite recipe
- Coincides with a television programme provisionally entitled ‘Saatchi’s Art Star’ being broadcast on BBC 2 in October 2009
Paperback
120 x 178 mm, 4 3/4 x 7 in
176 pp
55 black and white illustrations
ISBN 9780714857473
0714857475
Art collector, gallery owner and founder of a global advertising agency, Charles Saatchi is famously publicity-shy, a reluctant interviewee who never attends his own gallery openings, let alone anyone else's. This book brings together his unflinching responses to more than 200 questions he has been set over the last few years by leading journalists and critics as well as members of the public. Whether the questions are about the art world, collecting, advertising, money or his personal life, Saatchi answers them all with disarming and sometimes brutal frankness, creating an enlightening and entertaining first-hand account of the most influential art collector of our time.
Questions include:
- How do you decide whether something is worth £10 or £10 million?
- So much contemporary art looks the same to me. Am I missing something?
- Do you think you have messed up anybody’s life by flogging off all their work?
- Is too much art now about shock value rather than creativity, like Tracey Emin’s unmade bed?
- How can you tell a good Picasso from a bad Picasso? Come to that, how can you tell a good Damien Hirst from a bad Damien Hirst?
Charles Saatchifounded the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in 1970, which quickly grew to become the largest in the world. He started collecting art at about the same time and opened his first public gallery, a 30,000 sq ft ex-paint factory in Boundary Road, London in 1985. His new gallery occupying the 70,000 sq ft Duke of York HQ, Kings Road, London opened in October 2008.