Saatchi Gallery marks 40 years with an oil lake, a spinning car and a riot of contemporary art
A vast lake of crude oil and a car spinning mid-air above a sea of discarded tyres headline the Saatchi Gallery’s winter exhibition, marking 40 years of contemporary art at the institution.Founded during the surge of Young British Artists in the 1980s, the Saatchi Gallery opened in 1985 in a former paint factory in St John’s Wood, later relocating to County Hall on the Southbank in 2003 and — after a rather fraught departure — to its current Chelsea home in 2008.
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