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Saatchi Gallery opens ‘ The Empire Strikes Back – Indian Art Today’

T Venkanna - "Dream In Dream", 2007 - Oil on canvas,153 x 259 cm. (Diptych) Dream in Dream is appropriated from Rousseau’s 1910 painting titled The Dream.

LONDON.- In October 2008, the Saatchi Gallery
re-opened in the 70,000 sq. ft Duke of York’s HQ building on King’s Road in the
heart of London.
With free admission to all shows, the Saatchi Gallery
aims to bring contemporary art to the widest audience possible. Its first three
shows, “The Revolution Continues: New Art from China”, “Unveiled: New Art from
the Middle East” and “Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture”, have
attracted over one million visitors to date. The Empire Strikes Back:
Indian Art Today on view through 7 May, 2010.