Jake and Dinos Chapman
Iakovos "Jake" Chapman (born 1966) and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman (born 1962) are British visual artists, previously known as the Chapman Brothers. Their art explores deliberately shocking subject matters; for instance, in 2008, they produced 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. In 2013, their painting One Day You Will No Longer Be Loved III was the subject of Derren Brown's Channel 4 special The Great Art Robbery.
In 2022, with the announcement of Jake Chapman's solo show Me, Myself and Eye, it was disclosed that the Chapman brothers had ended their professional association. Jake Chapman made reference to mutual "seething disdain" and told the Guardian they were both "sick of the partnership" and were "no longer having fresh ideas together".[1]
Lives and careers
Jake Chapman was born in
Art collaboration
They began their own collaboration in 1991. The brothers have often made pieces with plastic models or
Their 1995 mannequin Two-faced Cunt was of a naked young girl with two heads joined together by a vagina, which sold for £91,250 in 2011.
Their sculpture Hell (2000) consisted of a large number of
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 Francisco Goya's most celebrated prints – and set about systematically defacing them".[6] The Goya prints referred to his Disasters of War set of 80 etchings.[6] The duo named their newly defaced works Insult to Injury.[6] 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."[7] While 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",[8] they also noted that the effect of their work was powerful.[8]
The Chapman brothers were nominated for the
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.[9]
In 2007, they were criticised by journalist
Art by Adolf Hitler
In May 2008, White Cube gallery exhibited 13 apparently authenticated watercolours painted by Adolf Hitler, to which the brothers had added hippie motifs.[13] Jake Chapman described most of the dictator's works as "awful landscapes" which they had "prettified".[14] The central device and context of this exhibition were strikingly similar to those of the artist Ira Waldron in her project "Die Damen mit den Hündchen", first exhibited at the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary art in May 2007.[15] Waldron also entered into an artistic duel with Hitler, seen as a mediocre bohemian artist,[16] by overlaying her motifs and colour on to expanded copies of thirteen of his drawings.[17]
Also included in the Chapmans' 2008 exhibition was Fucking Hell and a series of doctored eighteenth and nineteenth century-style aristocratic portraits in oils.[18]
In 2011, in their "Human Rainbow" and "Introspastic" series, the Chapman Brothers produced further works based on the same Hitler drawings of Geli Raubal and his dogs which had been previously appropriated by Ira Waldron in her 2007 exhibition.
Letter to Culture Secretary
On 1 October 2010, the brothers were co-signatories to an open letter to the British government's Culture Secretary
Personal lives
Jake Chapman
Jake married the fashion model Rosemary Ferguson in 2004. They have two children together and live in the Cotswolds.[20][21]
In August 2014 Chapman was quoted as saying that taking children to art galleries is a "total waste of time". The comment caused other notable artists to speak out against Chapman's thoughts.[22]
Dinos Chapman
Dinos was married to Tiphaine de Lussy; they are now divorced. They have two daughters and lived in Spitalfields, London.[23]
Both brothers are members of Arts Emergency, a British charity working with 16- to 19-year-olds in further education from diverse backgrounds.[24]
References
- TheGuardian.com. 11 May 2022.
- ^ ,"UEL Alumni – Arts Showcase".
- ^ End game. British contemporary art from the Chaney family collection, exhibition Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Yale University Press, New Haven/London 2008, p. 68.
- ^ "Christie's". Christie's. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ^ "Christie's". Christie's. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ^ a b c Jones, Jonathan. Look What We Did, The Guardian, 31 March 2003. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
- ^ Sumpter, Helen. [1], BBC, 17 April 2003. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
- ^ a b Dorment, Richard. Inspired Vandalism, The Telegraph, 27 May 2003. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
- ^ Lynn Barber "How I suffered for art's sake", The Observer, 1 October 2006, accessed 3 August 2008.
- ^ Johann Hari "The art of subverting the Enlightenment" Archived 7 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine, The Independent, 5 February 2007. Retrieved 9 February 2007
- ^ "Meet the real brothers grim", The Observer, 8 October 2006
- ^ (3 August 2009). Jake Chapman vs. journo Carole Cadwalladr: Battling it out in the mosh pit, Art Design Publicity. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
- ^ "Hitler gets Chapman treatment as Hell rises from the ashes" The Guardian, 30 May 2008, retrieved 25 February 2009
- ^ Brooks, Richard (25 May 2008). "Tracey Emin puts on erotic show for Royal Academy". The Times. London. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- ^ "Ira Waldron, Die Damen mit den Hűndchen" Tsantsanoglou, Maria, May 2007, Catalogue entry for 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art", State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2007, retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ "Салоники – Гетеротопии" Литический, Георгий, 4 июня 2007г, Первая Биеннале Современного Искусства, 21.05–30.09.2007, Информагентство Культура; Litichevsky, Georgy, 4 June 2007, "Thessaloniki – Heterotopias", First Biennale of Contemporary Art, 21.05 – 30 September 2007", Informagentstvo Kultura, Gif.ru. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ "Дамы с собачками, Мультимедийная Инсталляция Иры Вальдрон" 21 апреля 2008. Государственный Центр Современного Искусства (ГЦСИ), 22–28 апреля 2008г. Информагентство Культура; Gif.ru. 21 April 2008. " Die Damen mit den Hündchen, multimedia installation by Ira Waldron", National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow (NCCA), 22–28 April 2008, Informagentstvo Kultura, Gif.ru. retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ "The art of Adolf Hitler (with a little help from the Chapman brothers)" The Independent, 30 May 2008, retrieved 25 February 2009.
- ^ Peter Walker, "Turner prize winners lead protest against arts cutbacks," The Guardian, 1 October 2010.
- ^ "All you need to know about Cruz Beckham's girlfriend Bliss Chapman". OK. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ "Artist Jake Chapman enlists star friends to help in search for his missing dog". Evening Standard. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ Tyzack, Anna (4 August 2014). "Jake Chapman: Taking children to galleries is a 'waste of time'". BBC.
- ^ Danielle Demetriou, "My Home: Dinos Chapman, artist," The Independent, 13 June 2007
- ^ "Media Diversity UK". E-activist.com. Archived from the original on 23 December 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
External links
- Official website
- Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People – exhibition at Tate Liverpool, December 2006 – March 2007
- Jake and Dinos Chapman: Come and See – exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, November 2013 – February 2014
- Interview by Maia Damianovic