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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Genevieve Fox

A sneak preview of Neurotic Realism at the Saatchi Gallery, 1999

'Artist Rifle Series', 1997 Obs mag cover - Life 10 Jan, 1999
Sharp shooter: 'Artist Rifle Series'. Photograph: Paul Smith

This sneak preview of Neurotic Realism: Part One, opening imminently at the Saatchi Gallery in north London, might leave you on edge. Charles Saatchi’s latest taste-maker as reviewed in the Observer of 10 January 1999, includes an ‘enchanting rubbish dump’ of wires, ash and tin cans by Tomoko Takahashi. The artist is asleep among the rubble, ‘like Tilda Swinton at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1995, making an exhibition of herself.’

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