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'end of fun' by jake and dinos chapman
image © jake and dinos chapman
photo © hugo glendinning
courtesy the hermitage, st. petersburg
jake and dinos chapman: end of fun
the state hermitage museum, st. petersburg, russia
on now through january 13th, 2013
young british artists jake and dinos chapman build highly elaborate iconoclastic installations and sculptures brought to life with caustic wit and
confronting effervescence - their hellscape 'end of fun' currently being shown at the hermitage museum in russia. the artwork of the chapman brothers
tackle ideas surrounding contemporary politics, religion, myth and morality, with 'end of fun' depicting an interpretation of hell -
tens of thousands of miniature figures in nazi uniform performing abhorrent acts of cruelty.
the chapman brothers are renowned for exploring and articulating a spectrum of beauty and pain, humour and horror in ways that jolt the
viewer into contemplation - portraying a portentous observation of the twentieth-century through the lens of our own voyeurism.

image © jake and dinos chapman
photo © hugo glendinning
courtesy the hermitage, st. petersburg

image © jake and dinos chapman
photo © hugo glendinning
courtesy the hermitage, st. petersburg

image © jake and dinos chapman
photo © hugo glendinning
courtesy the hermitage, st. petersburg

image © marcin lachowicz
What drug do I take to see ‘the portentous observation of the twentieth-century through the lens of our own voyeurism?
At the moment all I can see is a highly detailed morbid nazi death camp thing with not a blob of glue in site which is most impressive.
Appears to be a Tour de Force 3D scene of a Hellish 4D world. Awesome detail throughout. Badass Model Railroading gone Zombie.
stress as art … can’t imagine later in this century anyone but phd historians having any interest at all in this.
What for? Artists seem to be bored as hell.
for all those who died (and the very few who survived) in nazi extermination camps this “hell’s depiction” would be merely a disneyland.
look what religion brings into the world.