Saatchi Gallery
Contemporary art gallery in a grand nineteenth-century military HQ, champion of the Young British Artists movement.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Saatchi Gallery follows a 1991 phone call from a young art student, Damien Hirst, ordering a fourteen-foot tiger shark from an Australian fisherman. It traces how Charles Saatchi, the advertising mogul turned champion of a new generation of British artists, funded the piece and the effect it had when it debuted here. Listen for how the gallery's move to Chelsea in 2008 changed the story, and what still defines the space today.
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