LONDON - An exhibition featuring new work from The Saatchi Gallery by forty young American artists, will be brought together at the Royal Academy of Arts in USA Today.  Over 150 new works of art will be presented including paintings, sculptures and photographs.  The exhibition will run from 6 October – 4 November 2006 at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens.

USA Today features a new generation of American artists, together with other young artists who have moved from Europe, Asia, Africa and other parts of the world to work in the United States.  The subjects of these recently made art works, most of which are no more than two years old, focus on the artists’ views of world events and America’s place in global society.  Many of the artists and their works have already attracted attention through their political references.

This will be the first showcase for an exciting new wave of talent emerging in the US, and continues a collaboration established in 1997 with The Saatchi Gallery when the Royal Academy of Arts presented ‘Sensation’, an exhibition that received record numbers of visitors in London, New York and Berlin.

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, President of the Royal Academy of Arts said: “This is a thought-provoking and exciting array of works from tomorrow’s big art names.  The Royal Academy is delighted to be collaborating with The Saatchi Gallery on this important exhibition”. 

Exhibitions Secretary Norman Rosenthal, who will be curating the exhibition with Charles Saatchi, said: “The Royal Academy of Arts is very excited at the thought of being able to show this remarkable group of artists from the United States.  Many of these wonderful pieces are little known in Great Britain or Europe, and present a new vitality of art in the United States today and demonstrate a varied array of political and aesthetic agendas of the greatest interest that represent the many vital aspects of life and culture today”.

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