JAKE AND DINOS CHAPMAN

My Giant Colouring Book

16th August – 14th September 2008

Big names with statements sometimes too irreverent for mainstream museum gigs over at little gallery Campbell Works - this is an exciting opportunity for anyone into the Chapman's work to get an intimate perspective on these celebrities.

WARNING, may cause "moral panic" and possibly un-suitable for those with exaggerated moral certitude! Here is what Campbell Works has to say:
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Even today, when everything in art is supposedly permitted, the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman still has the whiff of scandal and transgression. Their obsession with the ‘dark’, chaotic imagery of the unconscious, where unreason rules, is re-enforced by a consummate mastery of traditional skills in whatever medium they deploy.

The Chapman Brothers’ work has subverted the tradition of transcriptions, a respectful and integral art historical process, by defacing many works by great masters in order to create new territory. 19 of the 21 images are based loosely on join-the-dots drawings from children’s picture books. These have triggered surrealistic interventions, improvised monstrous creatures, fantastic landscapes and macabre incidents, deviating wildly from the prescribed dot-to-dot formation. Dinos has said that they ‘are about how wrong you could make an image. How you could use nodal points and ignore them at the same time’.

’My Giant Colouring Book’ is a touring exhibition developed by the Hayward Gallery and the Arts Council England.

Links

Campbell Works
http://www.campbellworks.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/galleryexhibitionspresent.htm