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Original exhibition poster by Jake and Dinos Chapman. 100 x 70 cm, new. Jake (born 1966 in Cheltenham ) and Dinos Chapman (born 1962 in London ) are two British artists . In their artistic work, the two brothers appear almost exclusively together. Both studied in London at the Royal College of Art and supported the artist couple Gilbert and George as assistants. It wasn't until 1992 that the brothers began working together on their own works. The focus of her work is on plastic models of people or representations of fiberglass mannequins . One of her first works was the reenactment of the 83 scenes of torture and mutilation from Francisco Goya's picture cycle The Horrors of War using small three-dimensional plastic figures. One of these scenes was later realized on a life-size scale in the work Great Deeds Against the Dead . The two brothers continued the theme of anatomical modification with a series of child mannequins, often fused together, into whose faces they placed genitalia . The figures are naked except for the sneakers on their feet. Namely sneakers from the Fila brand. The largest of these works they call Zygotic Acceleration, Biogenetic, Desublimated Libidinal Model . They gave other sculptures in this series simple titles such as Fuckface or Two-Faced Cunt , which show the thin line between humor and pleasure in provocation that is typical of their work . With Hell , created in 2000 , Jake and Dinos Chapman returned to their miniature models. In nine display cases, which they placed in the shape of an inverted swastika , they placed over 30,000 figures either in Nazi uniforms or unclothed and mutated , with which they staged a scenario of torture and extermination. The work is now part of François Pinault's collection . In 2002, the brothers created a series of African-style wooden sculptures, masks and fetishes, The Chapman Family Collection . At second glance, it turns out that all objects have one or more McDonald's logos or even represent McDonald's advertising media such as Ronald McDonald . The two brothers often refer to artists from earlier eras in their work. Like Goya, they take up a work directly or show great affinities to Hieronymus Bosch , William Blake , Auguste Rodin or Nicolas Poussin . In 1995, the sculpture Superman was created , which depicts Stephen Hawking dangerously close to the edge of a cliff. With this figure they took up Edwin Landseer's Monarch of the Glen motif . The work of Jake and Dinos Chapman has always been accompanied by heated controversy . In addition to constant accusations of bad taste, they received strong protests in 2003 when they painted funny cartoon characters on a series of Goya etchings The Horrors of War printed in 1937. Despite all odds, they were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003 . In 2008, they painted peace symbols over 13 watercolors by Adolf Hitler for the exhibition If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be . Seller Inventory # 23534
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