Jake & Dinos Chapman, The End of Fun, 2013. SOLD OUT
Introduced with an exclusive essay by Will Self placing the eponymous sculpture The End of Fun in both the context of the Chapman’s oeuvre and historical interpretations of Hell, this book is a detailed examination of the work. Completed in 2012, it is the latest incarnation of the brothers’ famous Hell (1999), which was consumed in the Momart fire of 2004. Following on in both layout and format from the book Fucking Hell (2008), The End of Fun consists of close-up photographs detailing the atrocities committed by the subjects of the work: thousands of miniature Nazis and skeletons, who seem to be engaged in an eternal battle across nine separate vitrines, arranged in the shape of a reverse swastika. Each dreadful scene is played out against a series of equally apocalyptic backdrops: a derelict factory; a concentration camp; a shattered church; an erupting volcano. Dark humour permeates: in one vitrine a still-smiling Ronald McDonald is being crucified; in another, seven separate Adolf Hitlers make distinctly ‘degenerate’ paintings of a nude, oblivious to the carnage raging around them.
'The End of Fun' is Co-published with White Cube in an edition of 1,200 copies.
240 x 170 mm hardback
176 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9568962-5-4
Price £50 SOLD OUT
Limited Edition.
100 copies individually burnt therefor each copy is unique
Signed and numbered by Jake & Dinos Chapman
Price: £175 SOLD OUT
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[…] Singed with their very own sense of black humour that harks back to the unfortunate incineration of the original work, The End Of Fun publication follows 2008′s Fucking Hell by collecting macro images of the miniaturised destruction. Co-published by The White Cube and limited to a run of 1,200, one hundred copies have been hand-burnt before being singed and numbered by Jake and Dinos themselves, making each copy absolutely unique. [via New Art Editions] […]