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School Of Saatchi….Xfactor of art ? | December 6, 2009
After several rumors and scrapped pitches even Sex and the city actress Sarah Jessica Parker in the works of creating a project catwalk version for the contemperory art world *watch this space* The BBC have finally secured the idea of creating a “manufactured artist” in School Of Saatchi. 6 art students are in the running prize of creating a piece in the prestigious Saatchi art gallery
Much in the same format as Popstars or American Idol or Xfactor it has an auditions round, judges/mentors including artist Tracy Emin
Each week the trainee artist superstars are given tasks to create art and be judged this includes tackling “public art” and to creating contemperory art work in The Sudeley Castle .
Work by two of the twelve remaining artists, Suki Chan and Samuel Zealey, is displayed on the beach in Hastings.
Contestant Samuel Zealey displays his contemporary artwork in Sudeley Castle.
Over all I love the idea much to the disgust of my fellow students in my studio the idea of a “manufactured artist” I will plan to watch it each week and see how the show progresses as its seems like an interesting concept to create a fully pledged artist in a matter of 12 weeks or so.
But really at the end of the day it’s still bad reality television ?? is it not ?
All images are sourced from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p71qk
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