Jake and Dinos Chapman

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Jake (* 1966 in Cheltenham ) and Dinos Chapman (* 1962 in London ) are two British artists . In their artistic work, the two brothers appear almost exclusively together.

life and work

Both studied in London at the Royal College of Art and supported the artist couple Gilbert and George as assistants. It wasn't until 1992 that the brothers began to work together on their own works.

Her work focuses on plastic models of people or representations of mannequins made of fiberglass . One of her first works was the reenactment of 83 scenes of torture and mutilation from Francisco Goya's picture cycle The Horrors of War with small three-dimensional plastic figures. One of these scenes was later implemented in the work Great Deeds Against the Dead on a life-size scale.

The two brothers continued the theme of anatomical change with a series of often grown together child mannequins, which they put genitals in the faces. The figures are bare except for the sneakers on their feet. Namely, Fila brand sneakers. They call the largest of these works Zygotic Acceleration, Biogenetic, Desublimated Libidinal Model . They gave other sculptures in this series simple titles such as Fuckface or Two-Faced Cunt , in which the fine line between humor and the pleasure of provocation that is typical of their work is shown.

With Hell , which was created in 2000 , Jake and Dinos Chapman returned to their miniature models. In nine showcases, which they placed in the shape of an inverted swastika , they placed over 30,000 figures either in National Socialist uniforms or undressed and mutated , with which they staged a scenario of torture and extermination. Today the work is part of the PINAULT Collection.

In 2002 the brothers created a series of African-looking wooden sculptures, masks and fetishes, The Chapman Family Collection . At second glance it turns out that all objects have one or more McDonald’s signets or even represent McDonald’s advertising media such as Ronald McDonald .

In their work, the two brothers often refer to artists from earlier eras. As with Goya, they take up a work directly or show great affinities to Hieronymus Bosch , William Blake , Auguste Rodin or Nicolas Poussin . In 1995 he created the sculpture Übermensch , which depicts Stephen Hawking dangerously close to the edge of a cliff. With this figure they took up Edwin Landseer's motif Monarch of the Glen .

The work of Jake and Dinos Chapman was always accompanied by fierce controversy . In addition to the constant accusation of bad taste, they reaped violent protests in 2003 when they painted funny cartoon characters on a series of Goya etchings printed in 1937, The Horrors of War . In spite of all odds, they were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003 . In 2008 they painted over 13 watercolors by Adolf Hitler with symbols of peace for the exhibition If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be .

Selected exhibitions

  • 2017: The Disasters of Everyday Life. Jake & Dinos Chapman , Blain | Southern, London .
  • 2017: In the Realm of the Senseless. Jake & Dinos Chapman , Arter (art center), Istanbul .
  • 2017: To Live and Think like Pigs. Jake & Dinos Chapman , UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles .
  • 2016: Heaven and Hell. (Group show), Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam .
  • 2014: Come and See. Jake & Dinos Chapman , DHC / ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal .
  • 2014: Come and See. Jake & Dinos Chapman , Serpentine Gallery , London .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2003/04/03/chapman_2.jpg illustration
  2. ↑ Figure ( Memento from March 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Scandal artists paint over Hitler's works , June 4, 2008