Jake and Dinos Chapman_Come and See

                       

 WHAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU; NOW EAT YOUR MIND

Morality, the history of art and consumer culture loom large in Jake and Dinos Chapman's new show Come and See. 
Come and See demonstrates the range of the artists' output - from painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture, to film, music and literature - exploring their provocative and deliberately confrontational work, which approaches controversial subjects with irreverence and dark humour.

Mannequins dressed as a member of Ku Klux Klan, known for their white supremacist beliefs. While these figures are in keeping with the Chapmans' longstanding history of working with taboos and controversial subject matter, the artists have attached smiley faces to the robes and placed striped socks and Birkenstock sandals on their feet, juxtaposing the sinister associations of the KKK with an element of the absurd. Moreover, the pointed hats of the Klan uniform were originally worn by Spanish flagellants and were also used as a mark of humiliation during the Spanish inquisition.

 The Chapmans began collaborating in the early 1990s and first gained attention for their work Disasters of War, a three-dimensional recreation of Goya's series of etchings of the same name, for which they reconstructed Goya's scenes of brutal violence using miniature plastic figurines that they carefully reshaped and painted by hand. Goya, and the Disasters of Warparticularly, have remained a continued presence in the Chapmans’s work. In 2003, they famously acquired a set of Goya's etchings and altered them, painting clown and cartoon heads over the original faces of the figures.

Their large Hell landscapes, such as Hell (2000) and The Sum of All Evil(2012-13), are at once monumental in scale and minutely detailed. These apocalyptic landscapes, teeming with miniature figures, depict scenes of excessive brutality involving Nazi soldiers and, in more recent works, McDonald's characters. The grotesque and often surreal violence of the scenes is offset by the overwhelming detail and painstaking labour evident in these and many of the Chapmans’s works.

 Architect Zaha Hadid's design

   

29 Nov 2013 to 9 Feb 2014

Serpentine Sackler Gallery