recently in England to be shown "Schools Saatchi" - the TV talent show, whose participants were artists. The winner was Skraz Eugenie (Eugenie Scrase), 20-year-old Frenchwoman, who lives in the town of Buckingham. Her piece entitled Trunkated Trunk is now exhibited in the Hermitage, the exhibition "Newspeak: British Art Now" . Work brought there in late October, but the plaque with the name of the artist appeared only a few days ago.

Installation Skraz is part of the fence, which was stuck a piece of tree trunk. She saw this "picture" on the street in East London and was so impressed that he asked the housing associations in the territory of which the fence was located, with a request to give her the damaged section.

famous artist Tracey Emin (Tracey Emin), former member of the jury, called the idea Skraz "brilliant". According to her, such a step would not have dared to each artist.

Eugenie Skraz now at London's Slade School of Art. She often creates sculptures and installations of found objects. In addition to participating in the Hermitage exhibition, she had the opportunity to work for free for three years in a workshop provided by the organizer of the show - the famous art collector Charles Saatchi (Charles Saatchi).

The finalists emerged five artists. One of them, Matt Clark (Matt Clark) has received a proposal to create work for the exhibition "Newspeak", which will arrive in London next year. In addition, Eugenie Skraz allowed him to do in her new studio for a year, until she herself had not graduated.

addition to Tracey Emin, artist tried television art critic Matthew Collings (Matthew Collings) , collector Frank Cohen (Frank Cohen) and curator of the Barbican Gallery Kate Bush (Kate Bush). Saatchi himself did not show.

article prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI

Sources: saatchi-gallery.co.uk , artinvestment.ru

P. S. The site ARTinvestment.RU can also read:

30 questions to Charles Saatchi. Part 1
30 questions to Charles Saatchi. Part 2