From the moment early humans looked upward and tried to make sense of the sky, the sun and the moon have been at the centre of everything - faith, timekeeping, agriculture, mythology, and art.
This summer, Saatchi Gallery's major new exhibition, The Sun and The Moon attempts something quite ambitious: to gather that entire spectrum of human fascination into nine gallery spaces across two floors, and present it through the eyes of more than 170 artists.
It's the second in Saatchi's series examining how the natural world feeds creative practice, following last year's enormously popular FLOWERS - Flora in Contemporary Art and Culture.
"It's a whole 24-hour journey through the eyes of artists and creators," curator Katherine Benson tells Euronews Culture at the exhibition's press viewing. "These celestial constants have been part of our lives throughout human history, and we wanted to explore all the different ways artists have been inspired by them."
A day in nine rooms
