Confessions of an Artoholic
Charles Saatchi confesses that Damien Hirst has lost his touch, but claims that 20th century histories will footnote “every artist other than Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd” and the shark-cutting skull bedazzler. The influential art collector, and co-founder of Saatchi & Saatchi, is surprisingly speaking out in a new tell-all book. Set for a September release, “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic” supposedly offers the notorious recluse’s “unflinching responses” to 200 questions from colleagues, critics and admirers on “art, ads, life, god and other mysteries.”
Photo by Nigella Lawson
by Will Sherman on September 2, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Editor-in-Chief:
Will the real Charles Saatchi please stand up, and is there a newspaper in the UK that is not influended by him being a member of the St. John’s Wood Maffia that will dare to print a not so glowing story about him!
Just like all the other articles, you are afraid to show the other side of Charles Saatchi, Saatchi the bully, Saatchi the destroyer of artists.
My prospects for further my career as an artist has been shot to pieces by Charles new toy his online gallery. For almost four years I have been the victim of his online gallery. Virtually on a daily basis by reputation has been destroyed in his online chat room, forum and magazine blogs. Until i got the uk police and my lawyer involved two years ago he allowed anyone to anonymously publish libel and defamation on his website, and there it would stay forever in cyberspace, endlessly turning up in google searches on my name! Why you can even break the law and impersonate the police, as some anonymous poster did almost two years ago in publishing a Dorset police wanted poster with a photograph of me on appropriated from a local newspaper, encouraging readers to report me to the police for the careless actions of my impostor. You could even at one time publish the grossest libel and name your victim in his front page online magazine blogs and forums, until a lawyer and police investigation gets them to moderate and review all publications for their approval before publishing!
The truth is Charles Saatchi is a well known bully. Apart from saying to his brother Lord Maurice Nathan Saatchi that he could not believe that they came from the same womb, he bullied Maurice. At one time in the boardroom of their advertising offices, Maurine was reviewing a current ad campaign and Charles got up onto the table and walked across to Maurice and hit him over the head with a chair. In a bitter dispute with his landlord at county hall, the pop impressario Pete Waterman, Waterman describes a phone call from Charles as being simply a diatribe of abuse, and in a court case Charles gets hold of Watermans colleague Peter Caselton by the throat and tells him he would make sure that he went to bed with Waterman in jail!
Still, I need not rant on in an online comment. I invite you to view several of my video diaries showing what saatchi-online is truly like, abusive, homophobic, racist, and more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRkuJnX-DHc
In the following video you can see how his director Philly Adams implied blackmail to me if i did not stop visiting their website. A website where just anyone can surf into their chatroom http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/chatlive. Where, despite them having a notice claiming that they have email registration to chat, you can totally ignore this and choose a thousand different id’s a day and supply a totally made up email address, and be given instant access to chat and abuse, especially as one can also use the firefox browser and instal the Tor Vidalia proxy button into it, and then get into the chatroom on a proxy server, replacing their own ip address with one on the other side of the planet, and you can just press a button in Tor and change the ip address six times a minute, thereby encouraging the grossest abuse one could possibly imagine :-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJ6HEfXjSwIn the following video from over two years ago you can see a comedy noir comic strip i made of just a little of the abuse i received on his toy :-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGSA3tkDojQ
In the following video you can listen to one of his website stalking abusers in a voicemail threat :-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H210-BaeP7c
and in the following four part video diary, you can see screenshots of the abuse published on his website by an arrested stalker. Two people, one an artist member of his website were arrested for their stalking and abuse on his website in april 2008 :-
http://www.archive.org/details/RonnieHobbyHomophobicHateCampaign2001-2009PartL
http://www.archive.org/details/RonnieHobby2001-2009HomophobicHateCampaignPartLl
http://www.archive.org/details/RonnieHobbyHomophobicHateCampaign2001-2009PartLll
http://www.archive.org/details/RonnieHobbyHomophobicHateCampaign2001-2009PartIvThis is me :-
http://www.artreview.com/profile/ChristopherJohnHobby
ps. i do find one of your comments in this article highly amusing :-
“Johnny Craddock to Nigella’s Fanny”
Who amongst the media fraternity has the courage to paint the proper picture of Charles Saatchi !
I guess you are right on this.
Much love for this blog. I am going to get my brother the Nixon Fluro! I hope he enjoys it.