JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN – THE DISASTERS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
2017-09-25Jake & Dinos Chapman expand on their career-long preoccupation with Francisco Goya’s series of etchings, The Disasters of War. The Disasters of Everyday Life presents, for the first time, their latest body of sculptural work in a dialogue with three full sets of Goya’s prints, each set substantially reworked in a different way by the Chapman brothers.
The Chapmans’ oeuvre represents a prolonged philosophical investigation into the turmoil and violence of contemporary existence, placing them in a tradition of protest and pessimism in the visual arts alongside artists such as Goya, Bruegel and Otto Dix (both Bruegel and Dix painted works titled The Triumph of Death). Dix’s paintings revealed the grotesque face of capitalism inherent in both world wars. His series of prints The War sits alongside Goya’s in its extensive, graphic depictions of the battlefield. What then are the battlefields of the twenty-first century as depicted by Jake and Dinos Chapman?
Opposite – The Disasters of Everyday Life, 2017
Exhibition runs from October 4th through to November 11th, 2018
Blain|Southern
4 Hanover Square
London
W1S 1BP
