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One doesn't intend to make a habit of using these article pictures, but this was one not to be resisted, so dark and haunting. The picture is a section of an art piece called Hell, "which depicted the Apocalypse with 10,000 tiny plastic and tin figures, individually cast and hand-painted and configured in the shape of a giant swastika. Some were skeletons, some were body parts, others were mutilated figures and Nazi soldiers. Art critics had called it the Chapmans' most important work."
Ironically, "Hell" was destroyed in a fire last May. The artists, brothers Dinos and Jake Chapman, intend to take the opportunity of re-making "Hell" and incorporating themes that have emerged in world affairs since they completed their original work in 2000. Ms. Vogel writes for the NY Times:
Their new "Hell," the brothers said, will incorporate the many world events since the original's completion in 2000: 9/11, the war in Iraq, and more generally torture and terrorism. "It all kind of seems so obvious now," Jake said. "We're looking two years down the line. We won't allow anyone to see it until it's made."
Of course, that's the problem with an art work like Hell: It's an ever expanding theme.
One doesn't intend to make a habit of using these article pictures, but this was one not to be resisted, so dark and haunting. The picture is a section of an art piece called Hell, "which depicted the Apocalypse with 10,000 tiny plastic and tin figures, individually cast and hand-painted and configured in the shape of a giant swastika. Some were skeletons, some were body parts, others were mutilated figures and Nazi soldiers. Art critics had called it the Chapmans' most important work."
Ironically, "Hell" was destroyed in a fire last May. The artists, brothers Dinos and Jake Chapman, intend to take the opportunity of re-making "Hell" and incorporating themes that have emerged in world affairs since they completed their original work in 2000. Ms. Vogel writes for the NY Times:
Their new "Hell," the brothers said, will incorporate the many world events since the original's completion in 2000: 9/11, the war in Iraq, and more generally torture and terrorism. "It all kind of seems so obvious now," Jake said. "We're looking two years down the line. We won't allow anyone to see it until it's made."
Of course, that's the problem with an art work like Hell: It's an ever expanding theme.
