Publisher's Synopsis
In "Hell", British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman refer back to Francisco Goya's series "The Terrors of War". The two brothers painted, adapted and mutilated 10,000 toy soldiers to form their doomsday tableau. The toys were shaped into Nazi henchmen and figures that populated torture chambers and concentration camps or just stacks of dead bodies. The installation, nine glass cases arranged in a swastika shape, projects an image of the contradiction of form and content. The work shows a deeply shocking, apocalyptic scenario of hell full of violence and death, but with the occasional ironic underpinning of British humour.
