Jake & Dinos Chapman
(UK, 1966 & 1962)

– bewerkten kleurplaten door de lieflijke voorstellingen te voorzien van apocalyptische componenten.

Kort cv
Jake & Dinos Chapman volgden beiden hun opleiding aan de Royal College of Art, Londen en werden vooral bekend onder de noemer van de Young British Artists, gepromoot door galeriehouder Charles Saatchi. Het werk van de Chapman Brothers is te zien in de meest vooraanstaande musea ter wereld waaronder het Tate Modern. In 2003 werden zij genomineerd voor de Turner Prize.

Opleiding Dinos
Ravensbourne College of Art
Royal College of Art, Londen

Opleiding Jake
North East London Polytechnic
Royal College of Art, Londen

Recente tentoonstellingen
2008 My Giant Colouring Book, reizend naar DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery, Durham, The Gallery in Ormeau Baths, Belfast, Qube Gallery, Oswestry, Cambellworks, Londen, Pontardawe Art Centre, Pontardawe en Artsdepot, Londen (solo)
2007 When Humans Walked the Earth, Tate Britain, Londen (solo)

Werk in de tentoonstelling

1. My Giant Colouring Book (2004)
   19 x 40,6 cm, etching, polymergravure and photo-etching on Chine collé paper courtesy the artists, Jake & Dinos Chapman, & The Paragon Press, 2004 with thanks to Grimm Fine Art Gallery, Amsterdam

Fragment catalogustekst (Robbert Roos)
De Chapman Brothers hebben in hun oeuvre altijd geflirt met de 'onschuld'  van de kinderwereld. Het meest beroemd zijn hun paspoppen met zwaar aangezette genitaliën op alle mogelijke plekken. In 2007 maakten ze de etsserie 'My Giant Colouring Book', waarin ze kleurplaten van kinderen met getekende toevoegingen laten ontsporen in duistere, nachtmerrie-achtige sprookjes. De Chapmans kunnen enorm shockeren met heftige ingrepen, in de etsen tonen ze hoe ze met een verfijnde tekenstijl ook subtiele middelen weten in te zetten voor hun verbeelding.  

Zwart wit, tekeningen van enge beren (lijnen van cijfer naar cijfer), skeletten, varken in driedelig pak, gestreepte broek, hoge hoed, bril, soort roodkampje die met bloemen uit een ontploffend huisje komt, tulpjes in de voortuin.

Aanvullende informatie
(2) Jake and Dinos Chapman make iconoclastic sculpture, prints and installations that examine, with searing wit and energy, contemporary politics, religion and morality.
Working together since their graduation from the Royal College of Art in 1990, the Chapmans first received critical acclaim in 1991 for a diorama sculpture entitled 'Disasters of War' created out of remodelled plastic figurines enacting scenes from Goya's 'Disasters of War' etchings. Later they took a single scene from the work and meticulously transformed it into a 'Great Deeds Against the Dead' (1994), a life-size tableau of reworked fibreglass mannequins depicting three castrated and mutilated soldiers tied to a tree.
Arguably their most ambitious work was 'Hell' (1999), an immense tabletop tableau, peopled with over 30,000 remodelled, 2-inch-high figures, many in Nazi uniform and performing egregious acts of cruelty. The work combined historical, religious and mythic narratives to present an apocalyptic snapshot of the twentieth-century. Tragically this work was destroyed in the MOMART fire in 2004 and the Chapmans rebuked by saying they would make another, more ambitious in scale and detail - the result of which was 'Fucking Hell' (2008). The interim saw 'The Chapman Family Collection' (2002), comprised of a group of sculptures that bring to mind the loot from a Victorian explorer’s trophy bag, yet also portraying characters from McDonald’s. The conflation of the exotic fetish and the cheap fast-food giveaway, imperialism and globalisation, created a powerful sense of dislocation. ‘Like A Dog Returns To Its Vomit’ (2005), was an exhibition of the Chapmans’ graphic works, a large collection of etchings and drawings displayed on two walls and arranged in the shape of dogs. Many of the works were reinterpretations of Goya etchings, including the ‘Disasters Of War’ and the ‘Los Caprichos’ series. Using the Tate Collection's erotomanic sculpture 'Little Death Machine (Castrated)' (1993) as their point of departure, the Chapmans created 'When Humans Walked the Earth' (2008) an installation of ten improbable machines, cast in bronze and now ossified, emulating aspects of human behaviour with a trademark subversive wit.

Links en verwijzingen

1. www.jakeanddinoschapman.com
2. White Cube — Jake & Dinos Chapman
3. Jake & Dinos Chapman - Research the news about Jake & Dinos Chapman - from HighBeam Research
4. The Paragon Press verschillende ets-series te zien op deze site