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DESCRIPTION:
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British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman (Jake
born 1966; Dinos born 1962) started working
together in the early 1990s and have become
one of the leading art partnerships in the
contemporary British art world. Their first body
of work was based on a variety of sculptural
interpretations of Goya’s The Disasters of War,
which they fashioned from toy soldiers and
mutated mannequin parts. In 2000 they
produced Hell, a giant 1:32 scale reinterpretation
of mass genocide and later completed a series
of works that combine faux African sculpture
with McDonald’s inspired iconography. The
Brothers have also exhibited an original edition
of Goya’s The Disasters of War, over-painted
by the artists with clown heads. For their RS&A
chess set commission, the Chapman Brothers
chose to create a game played by postapocalyptic
adolescents, the one side white with
Arian haircuts and the other side black with Afro
hair. The set is displayed in its own handcrafted
games box, the board inlaid with white and black
double-headed skull and crossbones.
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