The Chapman
brothers grew up loving horror movies
which they produce within their art pieces. They make works so that they could
achieved a shock expression, anger and fear within the viewers. Their most
infamous work hell was destroyed in 2004 in fire work where newspaper held it
as an act of god but the Chapman started a new one. They produce their artworks
to engaged with the world rather than expression. The audience looks at their
works brutally which can make them think that the brothers had a very bad
childhood but they only produce pieces influencing them with movies and their
dreams. They want the viewers to produce some kind of humanist surrealist where
in natural fact the things are practically human. They do prints and painting,
materials like watercolours. The original piece ‘fucking hell’ was lost an east
London fire, which destroyed Charles Saatchi’s stored art collection. In the
newspaper people said that it was an act of God ridding the world from these
sadistic models.
They are the young British Artists (YBA) a group in London in the early 1990's. They were part of the 'sensation' this was a collection of contemporary art owned by Charles Saatchi which first took place on the 18 of September to 28 of December 1997 at the Royal Academy of Art in London and later toured to Berlin and New York.
In this outstanding, disturbing, dark work, it contains nine cabinets arranged in a swastika formation. Inside the cabinets are ten thousands of 2-inch high figures. Most figure are dressed in Nazi uniforms, performing ‘egregious’ acts of cruelty. The name of the work is ‘fucking hell’ which in 199 shows the audience with combination of historical, religious and mythical narratives.
Looking far away you will not see all the
time consuming details but when I looked closer the first thing that got to my mind is gruesome because of the muted red colour representing blood lying all
on the floor. Makes me feel anger and sorrowful for those innocent people who
were hopeless to save themselves. At first watching the video of the work in
full details, close up, the muted trees and the forky sky made my body to
shiver giving out a clue of this piece been mystical and extremely violence. Also it immediately tells you this is the kind
of things you could find in horror films. Bodies been brutally shattered into
pieces on the floor is very voem making a person wanting to vomit but yet you
can’t stop but feel intrigued and raged at the same.
The pigs eating the part
of the rotten, gruesome, wrinkled bodies makes me want to cry and ask myself
who in their right could do such a piece of artwork so brutal and without feeling sick to their stomach? The slightly
muted bodies shows that they are fresh while the darker ones shows that they
have been there for so long. Again seeing those broken bodies makes the viewers
to imagine the terrible terrific they must have been through-making us upset
that we weren’t again to help them, we blame ourselves and feel guilt
overwhelming us.
Watching a video of him explaining this piece of art I also understand that the world we live in is very cruel mainly people and starts to fear about if we really know who we are in this world. Because if we truly we won’t be hyporiate and talk about stopping violence and ending war where these things are something we ourselves do every day to one another. When we murder someone through the act of violence we form a social bomb. Empathises is about suffering , having the experience of denfiction of people who are suffering more than you are. Learning to understand what you have in life and what someone doesn't have. So looking closer at this work, although it will ragged people and shock them but studying it really hard you start to understand the meaning behind the work of how far people will go in this world with their sinful ways to make each other suffer pains.
We start to know that we are our own demons that make one another suffer. Although we will represent ourselves as kind creatures but deep down we are our own nightmares, we can never be cruel of our horrific beastly joy of destroying lives.
There are curved, jagged lines in some areas mainly the buildings where the lines are going in different directions, creating movement and details. Some of them are thick making them appear strong while other are thin but yet stands out really well because of the thick lines in front and behind them. There are random, uneven holes, presenting that this place is run down, dirty and abounded for a very long time.
The compositions are everywhere, taking all the space so that the objects could be packed, as place of no escape, you feel trapped and imprison. Some of the skeletons have few well known cartoons character faces, suggesting although this art work appear strong and dreadful, people will see humours in it to lighten the moment a little. Having some of the pieces extremely close together with people doing terrible things suggest this place was never save for anyone, everyone where for themselves trying to survive but no matter how hard they try to live, at the end everyone bodies were broken and turned to corpse where no one could recisizuqe who is who.
In their
work they produce pieces which are destroyic
showing that all works of art are desytroic by their very natural. Make
work of art that don’t patches themselves as idea or idealisms.
What truly
engages me are their agonizing ‘simulations’ that are happening before my eyes,
it makes draw closer to them and try and figure out the terror looks in their
eyes, their twisted bodies surrounded in chaos and frenzy.
Dinos
Chapman was born 1969 in London while his brother Jake Chapman was born 1966 in
Cheltenham.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_FwnHypFgk
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