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JAKE AND DINOS CHAPMAN
My Giant Colouring Book

16th August – 14th September 2008

Even today, when everything in art is supposedly permitted, the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman still has the whiff of scandal and transgression. Their obsession with the ‘dark’, chaotic imagery of the unconscious, where unreason rules, is re-enforced by a consummate mastery of traditional skills in whatever medium they deploy.

The Chapman Brothers’ work has subverted the tradition of transcriptions, a respectful and integral art historical process, by defacing many works by great masters in order to create new territory. 19 of the 21 images are based loosely on join-the-dots drawings from children’s picture books. These have triggered surrealistic interventions, improvised monstrous creatures, fantastic landscapes and macabre incidents, deviating wildly from the prescribed dot-to-dot formation. Dinos has said that they ‘are about how wrong you could make an image. How you could use nodal points and ignore them at the same time’.

’My Giant Colouring Book’ is a touring exhibition developed by the Hayward Gallery and the Arts Council England.
The project will take place at Campbell Works between Aug – Oct 08.



YOUTURN

16th August – 28th September 2008

Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson, Harriet Murray, James Unsworth,
Neil Taylor

The YouTurn project is a counterpart to the Chapman Brothers’ series of etchings and will be formed of a functioning artist’s studio with a curated artist-in-residence programme. Campbell Works will commission 5 artists to take up residence in the ‘studio’ during the exhibition to create a new body of work in direct response to the Chapman’s imagery.

All areas of the YouTurn exhibition will be open to the public in the same way as a conventional exhibition space, with the resident artists becoming part exhibit, part performer. In addition, visitors to the show can take part and step over the line from audience to artist, to create their own response and become part of the exhibition.

Through the process of modification and reworking, new images evolve, creating parallel interperetations and reference points. You-Turn will extend this working process and utilise the same irreverent respect towards the work of the Chapman Brothers. Taking “My Giant Colouring Book” as the starting point to create new work, YouTurn will continue Campbell Works’s enquiry into ideas surrounding authorship of imagery and question the process by which art and aesthetics evolve. Campbell Works first explored these ideas with ‘The Good Bad’ (2004) and “On Trust” (June 2007)