Jake and Dinos Chapman

Jake and Dinos Chapman

Iakovos "Jake" Chapman (born 1966) and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman (born 1962) are English visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers, who work together as a collaborative sibling duo. Their subject matter tends to concentrate on whatever is generally deemed to be appalling, vulgar, offensive, etc.—including, in 2008, a series of works that appropriated original watercolours by Adolf Hitler. In the mid-1990s their sculptures were included in the YBA showcase exhibitions Brilliant! and Sensation. In 2003, the two were nominated for the annual Turner Prize but lost out to Grayson Perry.

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Lives and careers

Jake Chapman was born in Cheltenham and Dinos Chapman in London. Their father was a British art teacher and their mother an orthodox Greek Cypriot (hence "Jake" an anglicized diminutive of the orthodox Iakovos, and "Dinos", a typical diminutive of the orthodox Konstantinos). They were brought up in Cheltenham but moved to Hastings where they attended a local comprehensive before both attending the University of East London.[1][2] Art college - then at Greengate House, Plaistow - and then enrolling at The Royal College of Art, when they worked as assistants to the artists Gilbert and George.

Art collaboration

They began their own collaboration in 1991. The brothers have often made pieces with plastic models or fibreglass mannequins of people. An early piece consisted of eighty-three scenes of torture and disfigurement similar to those recorded by Francisco Goya in his series of etchings, The Disasters of War (a work they later returned to) rendered into small three-dimensional plastic models. One of these was later turned into a life-size work, Great Deeds Against the Dead, shown along with Zygotic Acceleration, Biogenetic, De-Sublimated Libidinal Model (Enlarged x 1000) at the Sensation exhibition in 1997.

The Chapman brothers continued the theme of anatomical and pornographic grotesque with a series of mannequins of children, sometimes fused together, with genitalia in place of facial features. Their sculpture Hell (2000) consisted of a large number of miniature figures of Nazis arranged in nine glass cases laid out in the shape of a swastika. In 2003 with a series of works named Insult to Injury, they altered a set of Goya's etchings by adding funny faces. As a protest against this piece, Aaron Barschak (who later gate-crashed Prince William's 21st birthday party dressed as Osama bin Laden in a frock) threw a pot of red paint over Jake Chapman during a talk he was giving in May 2003. The Chapmans' oeuvre has also referenced work by William Blake, Auguste Rodin and Nicolas Poussin. Jake Chapman has published a number of catalogue essays and pieces of art criticism in his own right, as well as a book, Meatphysics, published by Creation Books in 2003. The brothers have also designed a label for Becks beer as part of a series of limited edition labels produced by contemporary artists. Using a title from the Tim Burton film, in 2004 they curated A Nightmare Before Christmas as part of the occasional All Tomorrow's Parties music festival at Camber Sands.

The Rape of Creativity

From April - June 2003, the Chapmans held a solo show at Modern Art Oxford entitled The Rape of Creativity in which "the enfants terribles of Britart, bought a mint collection of Goya's most celebrated prints - and set about systematically defacing them".[3] The Francisco Goya prints referred to his Disasters of War set of 80 etchings.[3] The duo named their newly defaced works Insult to Injury.[3] BBC described more of the exhibition's art: "Drawings of mutant Ronald McDonalds, a bronze sculpture of a painting showing a sad-faced Hitler in clown make-up and a major installation featuring a knackered old caravan and fake dog turds."[4] Whilst The Daily Telegraph commented that the Chapman brothers had "managed to raise the hackles of art historians by violating something much more sacred to the art world than the human body - another work of art",[5] they also noted that the effect of their work was powerful.[5]

Jake and Dinos Chapman. Death, 2003, in the Turner Prize.

The Chapman brothers were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003. As well as including Insult to Injury, their Turner Prize exhibit debuted two new works Sex and Death. Sex directly referenced their previous work Great Deeds against the Dead. The original work shows three dismembered corpses hanging from a tree, Sex shows the same scenario, but in a heightened state of decay. Additionally clown's noses are now present on the skulls of the corpses; snakes, rats and insects (like those found in joke shops) cover the piece. Death is two sex dolls, placed on top of each other, head-to-toe in the 69 sex position: despite appearing to be made of plastic it is in fact cast in bronze and painted to look like plastic.

That year the prize was eventually won by Grayson Perry.

On 24 May 2004, a fire in a storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection including Hell. The brothers subsequently made a very similar, though more extensive, work called Fucking Hell.

Disputes with journalists

In 2006, the journalist Lynn Barber claimed that she had received a death threat from the brothers, following conducting an interview with them.[6]

In 2007, they were criticised by journalist Johann Hari for adopting an anti-Enlightenment philosophy, and for Jake Chapman saying that the boys who murdered Liverpool toddler James Bulger performed "a good social service".[7] This followed a public media brawl between Jake Chapman and journalist Carole Cadwalladr in The Observer and on the internet the previous year. Cadwalladr told readers that Chapman threw her out of their studio.[8] Jake publicly replied, "You may grace your readers with the meek tones of plum-mouthed middle englanders, but don’t send them round to my studio I’ll make [...] mince meat out of them, ha ha ha."[9]

Big Brother

It was announced in December 2007 that the brothers would play Big Brother during 2008's Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack.[10] They had to pull out for undisclosed reasons.

Art by Adolf Hitler

In May 2008 the White Cube gallery exhibited 13 apparently authenticated watercolours painted by Adolf Hitler, to which the brothers had added hippie motifs.[11] Jake Chapman described most of the dictator's works as 'awful landscapes' which they had 'prettified'.[12] Also included in the exhibition was Fucking Hell, the (somewhat altered) remake of Hell, and a series of doctored eighteenth and nineteenth century-style aristocratic portraits in oils.[13]

Letter to Culture Secretary

On October 1, 2010, in an open letter to the British Government's culture secretary Jeremy Hunt—co-signed by a further 27 previous Turner prize nominees, and 19 winners—the brothers opposed any future cuts in public funding for the arts. In the letter the cosignatories described the arts in Britain as a "remarkable and fertile landscape of culture and creativity."[14]

Personal lives

Jake Chapman

Jake Chapman married fashion model Rosemary Ferguson at a ceremony at Christ Church, Spitalfields, in London, in 2004. Guests at the wedding included Kate Moss, Sadie Frost, musician Noel Gallagher’s ex-wife Meg Mathews and artist Sam Taylor-Wood. Ferguson gave birth to their first child in 2005.[citation needed]

Jake and Rosemary live in Filkins, Oxfordshire, in a Victorian farmhouse which was restored by architects Waugh Thistleton, it includes guest accommodation and an open-plan kitchen, dining area and a heated swimming pool "filled with natural well water."[15] In July 2006, Furzey Hall Farm was offered for sale, prior to development, for £1.25 million.[16]

Dinos Chapman

Dinos Chapman is married to Tiphaine de Lussy, they have two children. They live in a terraced house in Spitalfields, London. The couple were involved in the renovation of the house, they "chose iroko for the floors, a warm Brazilian wood normally used in ship keels."[17]

References

  1. ^ ,"UEL Alumni - Arts Showcase". http://www.uel.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter/June07.htm. 
  2. ^ ,"AVA - UEL Art School". http://www.uel.ac.uk/ava/. 
  3. ^ a b c Jones, Jonathan. Look What We Did, The Guardian, 31 March 2003. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
  4. ^ Sumpter, Helen. [1], BBC, 17 April 2003. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
  5. ^ a b Dorment, Richard. Inspired Vandalism, The Telegraph 27 May 2003. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
  6. ^ Lynn Barber "How I suffered for art's sake", The Observer, 1 October 2006, accessed 3 August 2008.
  7. ^ Johann Hari "The art of subverting the Enlightenment", The Independent, 5 February 2007. Retrieved 9 February 2007
  8. ^ "Meet the real brothers grim", The Observer, 8 October 2006
  9. ^ (3 August 2009). Jake Chapman vs. journo Carole Cadwalladr: Battling it out in the mosh pit, Art Design Publicity. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
  10. ^ Kilkelly, Daniel "Big Brother's Celebrity Hijackers revealed", digitalspy.co.uk, 22 December 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2007.
  11. ^ "Hitler gets Chapman treatment as Hell rises from the ashes" The Guardian, 30 May 2008, retrieved 25 February 2009
  12. ^ Brooks, Richard (25 May 2008). "Tracey Emin puts on erotic show for Royal Academy". The Times (London). http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article3998904.ece. Retrieved 5 May 2010. 
  13. ^ "The art of Adolf Hitler (with a little help from the Chapman brothers)" The Independent, 30 May 2008, retrieved 25 February 2009.
  14. ^ Peter Walker, "Turner prize winners lead protest against arts cutbacks," The Guardian, October 1, 2010.
  15. ^ Waugh Thistleton Architects, "Furzey Hall Farm." Retrieved, August 31, 2010
  16. ^ Anna Tyzack, "For sale: Furzey Hall Farm," Country Life, July 17, 2006
  17. ^ Danielle Demetriou, "My Home: Dinos Chapman, artist," The Independent, June 13, 2007

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