Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill is delighted to celebrate its association with the international art world through a new partnership with the Saatchi Gallery, London’s leading contemporary art gallery.

The Saatchi Gallery is renowned for bringing exciting new contemporary art to the widest possible audience. For the first time in its 25-year history the gallery is working exclusively with a central London five-star hotel to create a cultural playground throughout the hotel, giving Londoners and visitors to the city the opportunity to interact and connect with the dynamic world of art outside the usual gallery environment.

The first of a series of three exhibitions taking place at the hotel throughout 2012 will open on 1 February. Entitled One Giant Leap, the exhibition represents not only the huge step the Saatchi Gallery and Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill have taken to create this unique partnership, but also an introduction to the wide range of works drawn from the Saatchi Gallery’s collection which has consistently had a reputation for being ground-breaking and innovative.

Highlights of the exhibition are Martin Honert’s Reisen, a monumental sculpture of two giants, each almost 3-metres high, who appear to have stumbled into the hotel; a series of small paintings featuring children, teenagers and young athletes by the highly acclaimed painter Chantal Joffe; Christina Mackie’s life-size hippopotamus; two paintings by Dexter Dalwood in which he imagines what you might find if you were invited into the homes of Liberace and the Queen; and Stella Vine’s homage to Margaret Thatcher, an affectionate painting of the former Prime Minister and her husband Denis.

In addition, from 1 February to 30 April 2012, a Limited Edition Saatchi Gallery Suite will be available for guests to stay in and experience contemporary art unlike any other space in London. On entering this exclusive Regency Executive Suite, guests will sleep amongst a collection of Saatchi Gallery works, some of which have not yet been exhibited within the Gallery. Highlights include: Ronin Cho’s interactive knocking door entitled We know this but we just don’t know how to show it, Steve Bishop’s Jean-Paul Gaultier – Classique (Arctic Fox), a sculpture combining a taxidermied fox, concrete and paint inspired by the Gaultier perfume bottle; and the recently acquired Rafal Zawistowki’s Judas. Finally, the young artist Celine Fitoussi will take the suite’s luxury bathroom to a new level, with a bespoke wall-to-wall soap installation. Fitoussi’s transformation of spaces into arenas of sensory and visual delight has already caught the attention of top interior designers such as Nicky Haslam.

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