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JAKE CHAPMAN - TO LIVE AND THINK PIGS (41/50). Watercolor Goya Disasters of War
2022

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JAKE CHAPMAN - TO LIVE AND THINK PIGS (41/50) Date of creation: 2022 Medium: Hand watercolour on digital print Edition number: 41/50 Size: 18.3 x 24.2 cm Condition: In mint conditions, never framed Hand watercolour on digital print made of Colorplan White Frost 350gsm paper. This unique piece belongs to a limited edition of only 50 prints, all of them hand signed. This one is numbered 41/50 by the artist. Image size: 14.4 x 19.7 cm Paper size: 18.3 x 24.2 cm Goya's "Disasters of War" is a chronological representation of the horrors lived in Spain in between 1810 and 1815. The 83 etchings, which are numbered by the artist on the upper left corner, are divided in three parts. The first one that has images focused on war scenes, these can be found on etchings from 1 to 43. The second part talks about times of hunger and depression on etchings from 43 to 64. The third part, drawn in times of post-war and the return of King Ferdinand VII, criticize this absolutist period using animal representations to parody the sociopolitical situation. ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in 1966, this British artist who now runs solo, has settled his artistic career along with his brother Dinos, a career that now is about 40 years long. The Chapman Brothers belong the the Young British Artists Generation, more commonly known as YBA. A group of artists that started their first exhibitions during the late 80’s and that have in common, not a defined style, but they way to express themselves and the use of different unusual medias to provoke and knock out the audience. Some of the artists that brand the YBA are Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas or the Chapman Brothers. These brothers style has always been controversial, mainly for their antiwar but grotesque imaginary, inspired mostly in Francisco Goya’s “Disasters of War”, which led them to create his own tribute in 1993. A piece that was a three dimensional representation of Goya’s etchings recreated by toy soldiers that is now part of the TATE museum collection. Their work is not suitable for the thin-skin audience. Works such as “Zygotic Acceleration, Biogenetic” (1995), “Hell”(2000) or “Come and see” (2013) have many fans but also many detractors. It is quite obvious that the first impression may back out but the truth is that all works are perfectly crafted and dig into details. If the viewers can see further than the aesthetic then they will find a speech against violence or brutalism that still are present in our days even though these may seem far to the individual. Always recurrent to their source of inspiration on the Spanish master Goya, they managed to but a complete and original set of the 83 etchings that form the “Disasters of War”, the last edition printed in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. They reworked and redraw these etchings adding their own characters to the original images. The reception was varied, of course. The argumentative line focused on the idea of art being created by destroying art, which is not something new. Rauschenberg did something similar with a de Kooning work to create his “Erased de Kooning Drawing”. While some critics said these works were absurd and coarse, which stated their lack of talent, the Chapman Brothers won Charles Wollaston Award for the most distinguished work in the Royal Academy in that summer exhibition. The latest exhibition of Jake Chapman, entitled “Me, Myself and Eye” is a declaration of individuality. Still, the source of inspiration is the same one: Goya, anthropology, parody or conceptualism are the main axis for his narrative. RELATED STYLES & ARTISTS Damien Hirst, Conceptual Art, Chapman Brothers, Surrealism

Creator:
Jake Chapman (1966, British)
Creation Year:
2022
Dimensions:
Height: 7.21 in (18.3 cm)Width: 9.53 in (24.2 cm)
Medium:
Paper,Watercolor,Digital
Movement & Style:
Young British Artists (YBA)
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Madrid, ES
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1033113655762

JAKE CHAPMAN - TO LIVE AND THINK PIGS (41/50). Watercolor Goya Disasters of War

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