Jake Chapman

Dinos Chapman

The Chapman brothers emerged in the nineties as major British artists attracting enormous attention and controversy with such works as Great Deeds Against the Dead (1994), based on a sculptural recreation of a scene from Goya's The Disasters of War. Their work questioned commonly assumed values about art and its relationship to the public and to history. They created a series of sculptures of apparently mutant figures with such titles as DNA Zygotic (1997), a multi-headed monster, and Tragic Anatomies (1996), an AstroTurf garden of mutant creatures like a contemporary scene from Bosch. Their nightmare vision culminated in a huge tableau of Hell (1998-2000), a landscape filled with hundreds of figures committing every imaginable atrocity, which forms the centrepiece to this book. More recently they have invented a pseudo-anthropological collection of tribal objects dedicated to the fast-food chain McDonald's. Their fascination with Goya has continued with the creation of their own coloured version of The Disasters, an exquisite but hideous tour-de-force.

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