Previous exhibition
Jake & Dinos Chapman - March of the Banal
About the exhibition
Jake and Dinos Chapman broke through in the early 90s as part of the group of artists known collectively as the Young British Artists (YBA). Even back then, the Chapman Brothers' sculptures generated a lot of debate and excitement for their provocative and shocking expression. With the artists' penchant for the explicitly grotesque, the audience is drawn into a sinister universe of merged mannequins creating strange and disturbing hybrid children, and original paintings of German dictator Adolf Hitler purchased and then painted over by the artists.
Even back then, the Chapman Brothers' sculptures caused great debate and excitement for their provocative and shocking expression. With the artists' penchant for the explicitly grotesque, the audience is drawn into a sinister universe of fused mannequins creating strange and disturbing hybrid children, and original paintings of German dictator Adolf Hitler purchased and then painted over by the artists.
About the exhibition
The three exhibitions in the Intermezzo series are generally characterised by a sensuous spatiality with large installations of an all-encompassing nature. At ARoS, Chapman Brothers will show two major installations, including a new and never before exhibited work. One of the two main installations consists of four monumental dioramas in which the ultimate orgy of war is played out through mercenaries. The second installation consists of a section of a living room that frames the experience of a disturbing family out of the ordinary. The Chapman Brothers' works can be provocative and their tactic is to overtly shock the audience. Beneath the surface, their work deals with complex issues that reach down to the very essence of human experience, hiding larger and deeper analyses of society's relationship to faith, violence, sexuality and morality.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with an introduction by curator Rasmus Stenbakken and a text by Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam, Associate Professor, PhD at the Department of Communication and Culture - Art History at Aarhus University. In addition, Niels Henning Falk Jensby, author of the book Techno, will write a text that, based on fiction, looks at artists' relationship to war and the body.
Reviews
Nordjyske
Århus Stiftstidende
Berlingske
...sheds thought-provoking light on the nature of violence
Weekendavisen
...an important and contemporary exhibition
Kunsten.
Special thanks to
Nordea Fonden
Statens Kunstfond