Jake & Dinos Chapman
The Rape of Creativity
Modern Art Oxford
12 April - 8 June 2003
Authenticity and the creative act are central themes of this exhibition of new work by Jake and Dinos Chapman at Modern Art Oxford (previously Museum of Modern Art Oxford).
Enfants terribles of British art, the Chapman brothers are known for their aesthetic of shock and provocation and for their consummate skill as draughtsmen and object makers. From sculptural tableaux and drawings inspired by Goya, to their sexually reconfigured mannequins sporting Nike trainers and the epic sculptural work Hell, the artists create works of weird beauty, horror and excess.
For their exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, the Chapmans present sculptures, paintings, drawings and a major new installation in the main Upper Gallery. The exhibition develops on the artists delight in cultural confusion and in challenging our assumptions about taste and meaning in art, explored most recently in The Chapman Family Collection; a faux-museographic display of hand-carved wooden fetish objects infected with the iconography of the global food outlet McDonalds.
All of the work in The Rape of Creativity are presented in the UK for the first time.
The exhibition is organised by Modern Art Oxford.
A fully illustrated publication featuring newly commissioned essays, produced by Modern Art Oxford, accompanies the exhibition. A limited edition print are available to purchase. Jake and Dinos Chapman's last solo exhibition in a public gallery was Chapmanworld at the ICA in 1996.
MODERN ART OXFORD
30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP
