Charles Saatchi is an art collector known for sponsoring the Young British Artists (YBA) group through exhibitions at his Saatchi Gallery. Key YBA artists featured include Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Chris Ofili, and Rachel Whiteread. Their works often dealt with controversial social issues and helped the YBA artists gain widespread fame and recognition. Another important artist featured is Sam Taylor-Wood, known for her photographic self-portraits and films exploring themes of emotion, the human body, and movement.
5. Zhang Huan. Donkey , (Moving mechanical donkey 'humping' the model of Shanghai's Jin Mao tower) Saatchi Gallery, London 2008
6. Sun Yuan and Peng Yu. Old Persons Home , (Wicked, their satirical models of decrepit OAPS look suspiciously familiar to world leaders, long crippled and impotent, left to battle it out in true geriatric style) Saatchi Gallery 2008
7. Sensation Exhibition (Exhibition of YBAs) Royal Academy of Art in London Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York National Gallery of Australia in Australia
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12. Renee Cox. Yo Mama’s Last Supper, (Montage of five photographs of 12 men and a naked black woman[Cox’s self portrait] posing Jesus) Sensation Exhibition , New York 1996
13. Rachel Whiteread. Untitled (One Hundread Spaces), (Series of resin casts of the space underneath chairs) Sensation Exhibition , London 1997
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19. Damien Hirst. Beautiful revolving sphincter, oops brown painting , (Household gloss paint on canvas, 72" diameter) Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli , Italy 2005
20. Damien Hirst. The Virgin Mother , (Massive sculpture depicting a pregnant female human, with layers removed from one side to expose the fetus, muscle and tissue layers, and skull underneath) New York City 2006
21. Damien Hirst. For the Love of God , (Platinum cast of a human skull covered with 8,601 diamonds) White Cube, London 2007
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25. Tracey Emin. Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, (Tent exterior) London 1995
26. Tracey Emin. Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, (Tent interior) London 1995
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30. Chris Ofili. Annunciation, (Bronzed sculpture ) London 2006
38. Sam Taylor-Wood was born in London in 1967, and she is now an outstanding British artist of the younger generation (YBA). She graduated from the sculpture department at Goldsmiths College in London in 1990 and then she went on to become a prolific film-maker and photographer.
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40. Sam Taylor-Wood. Five Revolutionary Seconds I , 1995 Five Revolutionary Seconds series were taken with a camera that panned 360 degrees around a room during a five-second exposure.
41. Sam Taylor Wood. Five Revolutionary Seconds VII 1997 Most of Five Revolutionary Seconds are not available in the Internet because they deal with sexuality.
42. Sam Taylor Wood. Five Revolutionary Seconds X 1997 While the image is a still photograph, the accompanying soundtrack records sounds and conversational fragments taped during the photo shoot. The people seen are the people heard, but their speech is out of character, the sounds not correlated to the image.
44. Sam Taylor Wood Pieta 2001 Pieta is a large-scale video that based on Michelangelo‘s sculpture. Sam Taylor Wood portrays the artist struggling to hold actor Robert Downey Jr. in the pose of the dying Christ. Michelangelo La Pietà , 1499
45. Taylor-Wood has explored notions of weight and gravity in elegiac, poised photographs and films such as series of self-portraits ( Self Portrait Suspended I – VIII ) that depict the artist floating in mid air without the aid of any visible support.
46. Sam Taylor-Wood Self Portrait Suspended I 2004 Sam Taylor-Wood had cancer between 1997 to 2001. These works are intended to convey a sense of insecurity and loneliness which reveal her inner scenery.
54. Sam Taylor-Wood Robin Williams 2004 Crying Men is another series of images she created. It is a treatise on the theme of sadness. It attempts to capture the moment between the real and the unreal, the imitation and the authentic.
55. Sam Taylor-Wood Ryan Gosling 2004 By her use of celebrity actors as models, the viewer debates the sincerity of their tears of sadness. Therefore we do not know whether or not their emotions are sincere.
75. Bram Stoker’s Chair series are the recent artwork that captured instantaneous movements . This work was done with ropes. Specialists fastened her body with ropes. Sam Taylor-Wood Bram Stoker's Chair I 2005
76. This series depicts conscious acts of self-iconoclasm in which the artist’s face is obliterated, either by being draped with her hair or otherwise masked by a trailing arm. Sam Taylor-Wood Bram Stoker's Chair II 2005
77. Sam Taylor-Wood Bram Stoker's Chair III 2005 These mark a departure from the tribulations of her emotional self towards physical trials of the body.
