Old and new jostle together in a loop of feedback, round and round the converted gunpowder depot. It feels as if the brothers want to get these issues straight from the start.īut straight is the opposite of the gallery experience. There is farce and melodrama to this art: this is openly declared. The opening work is a booth full of paraphernalia related to their 20-year career, from slides of youthful works to Halloween masks, ping-pong eyeballs, latex brains, brushes and paint. Indeed, they seem especially intent on this point, lining the walls with delicate watercolours and pencil drawings in the manner of Leonardo. The Chapman Brothers (to adapt an early title) Are Artists. All is superbly crafted artifice, as the closed circle of big models looking at miniature models implies. For these are not Klansmen any more than the harbinger crows perched above us are alive, or the figures cut out of cardboard are actually coupling on their plinths. Jake (right) and Dinos Chapman in their studio with their piece entitled Fucking with Nature, now on show at the Serpentine Sackler. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to. If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala.
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