The Saatchi gallery is one of a London gallery which represents the contemporary and modern art. Charles Saatchi who is known worldwide as an art collector and owner of the Saatchi Gallery- which opened the gallery in 1985 in order to show his collection of art to the public. The Saatchi Gallery is 70,000sq ft. Duke of York HQ building on King's Road, in Chelsea with an exhibition dedicated to new art from China.
I want to make a point of artists shown at the gallery because I realized that many artists are unknown, not only to the general public but also to the commercial art world. However we can take this as an advantage for them such as starting a launch careers.
Artist: Björn Dahlem - The Milky Way, 2007
Materials: Wood, Neon lamp, Bottle of milk
In my opinion art is an invisible line which creates a different connection of knowledge, imagination, senses, creativity and many more between people. The reason of the revolution of different art movements that keep changing is might be the difference of invisible environment we all live in.
The Saatchi gallery was one of the experiences which I felt the live energy and senses while I was analyzing the every design. Every sculpture had a small history, meanings for it. I also realized that you can make a design from every little thing. David Batchelor, an artist is one of the best examples for this. Now I’m so sure that the strongest and clear examples of art movements take place in this gallery.
The work that I found the most interesting and attractive is called ‘The Milky Way’ by Björn Dahlem. His creations are based on fragility rather than stability; defining condition of human knowledge. His room-sized sculpture is one of them, which represent abstract concept of space and matter. He only used low-tech wood and light crowded mean to universal theories, philosophy and re-imagining the ways the universe is understood, seem in startlingly simplified terms. For me it is nothing that breaks the boundaries and pushes sculpture to the next level.
‘Modernism is about light’ (Mcluhan) to me the light represents the futurism and modernism too. The technique of secret is in brightness of the light. It made me to trust and feel the senses of infinity, freedom, happiness, beauty and calm altogether. Leave the end of connecting the imagination open. In brief connects you with beautiful space and invisible environment. The message is clear and dashed line. . In his most sculptures, wood is paired with light, a symbol of the immaterial and of enlightenment.
“Wood allows me very immediate access to my ideas, because what I’m trying to do is to stay as close to the idea and the immaterial image of the imagination.”B. Dahlem …
* Björn Dahlem was born in 1974 in Munich, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin.
