book ‘Jake & Dinos Chapman. In the Realm of the Senseless’
year of publication: 2010
size: 16 × 24 cm
edition: 1000 pieces
binding: hardcover
reproductions in colour
languages: Polish/English
graphic design and typesetting: Zofia Oslislo
publisher: Institution of Culture Ars Cameralis Silesiae Superioris and BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice
ISBN 978-83-928793-6-7, 978-83-88254-61-1
Contents:
‘Lessness’ Rod Mengham
‘Almostly Hidden’ an Interview with Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton
Works
‘Dass Kapital ist Kaput Ya Nein!’
‘Disasters of war IV’
‘Gigantic Fun’
‘I felt insecure II’
‘I wanted to hurt an enemy II’
‘No Woman No Cry’
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The exhibition “Jake & Dinos Chapman. In the Realm of the Senseless” featured a selection of works by artists belonging to a generation surrounded by an aura of scandal, dubbed by the critics “Young British Artists”. These included: two vitrines from their famous “Fucking Hell” series, dozens of graphic prints from various periods, snuff-movie style videos filmed in the artists' workshop and three sculptures representing complex sexual machineries. The exhibition catalogue contains colour reproductions of these works, as well as a text by curator Rod Mengham and an extensive interview with the artists.
Black permeates its graphic design, suiting the concept of the exhibition, in which the audience is invited to assume a role of voyeur, delighting in the forbidden, disgusting sight of a massacre and violence with impunity.
Marta Lisok
The Chapman brothers have created some of the most powerful and challenging artworks of the last two decades, including sculptures, installations, paintings, etchings, films and performances. Their output has covered many of the most important traditional themes of western art, but always with a topical urgency and unparalleled inventiveness. They are now perhaps best-known for their ‘Hell’ vitrines and their series of etchings after Goya, ‘The Disasters of War’, and both of these projects feature in the exhibition at the Rondo Sztuki gallery in Katowice. Their work has engaged repeatedly with the after-effects of atrocity, injustice and abuses of power, but always with an unsettling mixture of outrage and comedy, elegy and farce. Their dual career has been one long act of subversion, a sustained critique of the age that is both intellectually and viscerally disturbing.
Dr. Rod Mengham
Jesus College, Cambridge, curator