Marwan Rechmaoui
March 24, 2009
My first stop this Tuesday was to the Saatchi Gallery in Sloane Square. What a very nice, proper, sophisticated and ritzy neighborhood. Every time I have gone to the Saatchi, the gallery has been in a different location. Four years ago they were in County Hall on the Thames next to the London Eye. I thought that exhibition space was super. This new space is over-the-top wonderful. Maybe it has to do with its affiliation with Phillips de Pury and the not so hidden agenda of art and market. Nonetheless this gallery is one of London’s premier exhibition spaces.
This sculpture by the Lebanese artist, Rechmaoui, is a precisely embossed rubber, detailed map of contemporary Beirut. (That is a city that is VERY high on my travel list.)
