The Chapmans

[Andrew McIntosh]

Just looking past any debates about relevancy or their association with the YBAs or whether they're just out to "shock" or whether they're past it or any of that - their ultra-cynical, anti-human vision is greatly appealing.

[SiClark]

Their 'Hell' (which got burnt down in a big warehouse fire and they re-made it as 'Fucking Hell') is superb. I spent a long time walking around all of the display cases with the insane amount of detail of nazi soldiers torturing people. Not everything they have made is great but I love their sense of humour.

[Major Carew]

I was lucky enough to actually see 'Hell' before the warehouse burned down (wasn't it an insurance scam? I seem to remember hearing the owner of the warehouse was responsible?), and barely being a teenager at the time I thought it was well funny... The attention to detail was absolutely mind blowing.They've since done smaller versions of it and I think the replacement ,which they tried to make even more brutal, was called 'Fucking Hell'? They also did an exhibition that had full size Nazi's bumming each other, classic!....

[tiny_tove]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md5uTCI8IuI

here it is for those who don't know them!

[martialgodmask]

I really like their stuff and I like their dismissive "so what?" kind of attitude.

This short interview is interesting for how it shines a light on the connection between their work and video nasty horror rather than politics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QeNatsDV4I

Kermode (interviewing), who I normally don't mind, comes across as a bit of a bellshiner though.

[cantle]

I like what they do but they are lazy; farming out all the donkey work of making the little figures for the 'Hell' piece(s) to art school graduates....

[HongKongGoolagong]

I like what they do but they are lazy; farming out all the donkey work of making the little figures for the 'Hell' piece(s) to art school graduates....

Artists have done that kind of sub-contracting forever though - Warhol certainly wasn't the first.

I'm a big fan of Jake's mischievous anti-book or pisstake of experimental literature Meatphysics which Creation published in 2003.