DOMOBAAL

Saucepan with Spilled Sausages

oil on canvas, 80×110cm (31.4"×43.3") 2007
(photo Andy Keate) Saatchi Collection, London

"As one might expect from Charles Saatchi, this exhibition begins with a funny, immediate work. Ansel Krut's painting, of an upturned saucepan full of sausages, is painted in drab dirtyish shades of paint that look creepily crusty, as though the painting has been found at the back of a garage somewhere. This is a good example of the work on show in Newspeak. You see something familiar turned on its head, and you don't need a press release or a wall text to understand it."

an extract from Laura McLean–Ferris's review of 'Newspeak: British Art Now, Part 2' Saatchi Gallery, London, published in The Independent on Friday 12 November, 2010