NICE IS SO DULL
The Chapman Brothers
exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery proved as gory yet brilliant as expected. The movie set up with surrounding figures of the KKK sitting by you side and throughout the rest of the exhibition is haunting and hilarious. The detailed nazi soldiers attacking multiple headed bodies and other deformed creatures along with Ronald McDonald being crucified, strangely isn't immediately shocking, although this is probably due to the expectation. ''I have never met anyone who was shocked by our work,' says Jake, 'or even talked to anyone who had met anyone who was shocked by it. The so-called outrage was just another media melodrama, a created outrage.' The satirical artwork is inspiring to present the evil and wrong with the world in such a graphic, sharp yet amusing manner. I have also seen the gleefully grotesque children's mannequins cut up and changed at the Think big exhibition hosted for the Saatchi auction. 'If you look at the genealogy of our work, beginning with the first Goya prints we used, we got the book, we chopped it up, then we got the little soldiers and chopped them up. It's art as a creative and a destructive act, but, in our case, it's definitely more destructive.'
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