Dinos Chapman - Jake Chapman

Dinos Chapman 

Born in 1962 in London, he lives there.

Jake Chapman
Born in 1966 in Cheltenham (UK), he lives in London.
 

Jake & Dinos Chapman, the enfants terribles of contemporary art, need almost no introduction, though their work has rarely been exhibited in France. Over and beyond the spectacle and excess of their ideas and the media storms they can provoke, their art is salutary, even cathartic. They work according to a principle of exposure of the repressed and inhibited, a principle which they employ boldly but not without a certain subversive irony, particularly in application to the shameful connections between sex, violence, and death, a combination underlying so much human activity and culture.

In the monumental context of the refectory at Les Jacobins, they are exhibiting Disasters of War, their reworking of a series of etchings by Goya, and two recently conceived sculptures based on the imagery of the tree of suffering. It is indeed in the tradition of Goya that the Chapmans digest (or even devour) religious iconography and political and consumerist symbols in order to spit out a reviewed and corrected, but also carefully distorted, vision of reality an antidote to the vertigos of terror and inhumanity.