Mike Kelley

Dan Graham

Bill Henson

Tracey Emin

Elizabeth Peyton

Jake Chapman

Richard Prince

Gillian Wearing

Dinos Chapman

Robert Gober

Raymond Pettibon

Gavin Turk

Andreas Gursky

Vanessa Beecroft

Richard Billingham

Fourth Sex, The

Brad Evans

Beholding the Pain of Humanity

Ecce Humanitas

A riotous new take on a classic fictional dystopia, with an all-you-can-eat quinoa buffet of wrongthink. With 2+2=5, George Orwell's flawed masterpiece finally receives a much-needed rectification, as Jake Chapman takes us on a bad trip into an atrocious alt-Eurasia--a nightmare utopia of 24/7 self-expression, mandatory wellbeing, yogic breathing, and promiscuous empathy. Yippie wonks in open-toed sandals have ejected the evil capitalist overlords, compassion and charity reign supreme, buckwheat salad and artisan cashew cheese are in plentiful supply, and all strive to live their best life, all the time. Employed by the Ministry to rectify misfortunes issuing from a curious glitch in the system, Winston Smith finds that his creative urges are unexpectedly awoken, and he is driven to express his deepest place, voice, and hurt through the medium of poetry. But what connects Winston's furtive scribblings in My Big Book of Me to the unpleasantnesses emanating from the deep glitch? Is Julia really the perfect kooky carefree soulmate she seems to be? Can O'Brien be trusted? And when does the new season of Big Brother start? An all-you-can-eat quinoa buffet of wrongthink, Chapman's twisted vision is a bracing reminder that dystopia is just wishful thinking, and that the worst can always get worster.

2+2=5

The Chapman brothers emerged in the nineties as major British artists attracting enormous attention and controversy with such works as Great Deeds Against the Dead (1994), based on a sculptural recreation of a scene from Goya's The Disasters of War. Their work questioned commonly assumed values about art and its relationship to the public and to history. They created a series of sculptures of apparently mutant figures with such titles as DNA Zygotic (1997), a multi-headed monster, and Tragic Anatomies (1996), an AstroTurf garden of mutant creatures like a contemporary scene from Bosch. Their nightmare vision culminated in a huge tableau of Hell (1998-2000), a landscape filled with hundreds of figures committing every imaginable atrocity, which forms the centrepiece to this book. More recently they have invented a pseudo-anthropological collection of tribal objects dedicated to the fast-food chain McDonald's. Their fascination with Goya has continued with the creation of their own coloured version of The Disasters, an exquisite but hideous tour-de-force.

Hell

Demos (Organization : London, England)

Jonathan Birdwell

Nicola Singleton

UK Drug Policy Commission

Commission Report on Legal Highs

Taking Drugs Seriously: A Demos and Uk Drug Policy

Insult To Injury

Jake And Dinos Chapman

The Life and Works of Jake and Dinos Chapman

Flogging a Dead Horse

James Hall

Rudolf Sagmeister

Eckhard Schneider

Edited by Eckhard Schneider. Essays by James Hall, Rudolf Sagmeister and Jake Chapman.

Jake and Dinos Chapman

Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany)

Groninger Museum

Enjoy More

In his first work of fiction, artist Jake Chapman reshapes the world of Mills and Boon in his own inimitable way, slashing the romantic novel down to bare bone and building his own disfigured version from the slaughtered remains. The Marriage of Reason & Squalor is a written extension of the work of the Chapman brothers. Our heroine, Chlamydia Love, is gifted her very own desert island by her fiancé, but she develops a grudging adoration for its real owner, the devilishly unattractive writer, Helmut Mandragorass. A battle begins over the ownership of the island and ultimately for the love of Chlamydia. Included in the book is a facsimile of Mandragorass' magnum opus 'Come Hell or High Water', a work of heartbreaking romance. This manuscript is reproduced as an insert on coloured paper, along with a number of genuine rejection letters sent to Chapman/Mandragorass from publishers who should have known better... Also featured are twenty exclusive colour prints by Jake Chapman as Chlamydia Love. Entitled Visions of Morass, they are from a collection of images drawn by her on the island of Morass, as she struggled with her feelings of agony and ecstasy.

The Marriage of Reason & Squalor

Paul Miller

Paul Skidmore

How Regulators and Companies Can Both Win

The Long Game

In Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights, Jake and Dinos Chapman re-imagine the Victorian morality tale. While their immorality Tales are wrought from the innocent language of the childrens colouring book, the messages they sagely pass on to our younger folk are far from the saccharin coated yarns familiar to the genre. The scenes these Tales depict are vivid and troubling, and will have dramatic consequences for the nocturnal serenity of the readers children These coloured etchings and stories have been made by the artists specifically for this project and are reproduced exclusively in this book.

Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights

Why Governments Must Learn to Think Differently

System Failure

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Dominic Molon

Derek Bickerton

Nick McDonnell

This aesthetic evolution has occurred in tandem with the artist's peripatetic movements around the globe in pursuit of the perfect wave. Over 300 colour images of works from the 1980s until today capture the acerbic wit and tremendous talent of the enigmatic artist. Textual contributions from Bickerton's family and friends, As well as scholarly essays by art historian Abigail Solomon-Godeau and MCA Chicago Curator Dominic Molon, are interspersed with the artist's commentary. An interview between the artist and Serpentine Gallery Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist is brought to vivid life by the renderings of Ignacio Noe.

Ashley Bickerton

Jake Chapman

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