Beautifully grotesque, the hell and horror of the brothers grim Jake and Dinos Chapman

Emerging from the Saatchi Young British Artists circus Jake and Dino Chapman have carved out a sinister corner of the art world all for themselves.     

Take a step with me into their world – it’s filled with horror, mutation, apocalypse, sadism and McDonald’s. Sound like fun? Well actually humour is key to their work – a child like sense of destruction and naughtiness pervades everything.    

Check out a video of their Hell installation here:   

 Even their most gruesome work has precedents in the ‘establishment’ – their iconic “Great deeds! Against the dead” work featured in Charles Saatchi’s Sensation show is a parody of Goya’s Disasters of War series. See their work and Goya’s original directly below:      

Jake and Dinos Chapman Great Deeds! Against the Dead” 1994

Goya, “Great Deeds! Against the Dead”, 1810-20,