When you see Clown & Mr Bubble in the cockpit you can be sure you are looking at a piece by Jack & Dinos Chapman which is about the twin towers. The Clown & Mr Bubble undermine the terrorists and the making of the cartoon, recognising the 6 differences: making you spot differences which echos the twin towers and it's an echo of the two images.
In the exhibition rooms there where Figures of the Ku Klux Klan seen wearing not white robes as most art critics wrote in their reviews but dirty shower curtains. Two of them are having sex with each other while wearing 'gay' rainbow (symbol of gayness) socks and sandals, they are figures of menace and ridicule. One can find them also sitting in the cinema watching a movie at the centre of the exhibition which makes them part of the audience and it makes us as spectators complicit.
They are a metaphor for racism, intolerance. During the movie 'The Organ Grinder once can see more masturbation at one point Jack & Dinos Chapman adults come out of their mother's vagina Samantha Morton.. Inside the glass cases dotted around the exhibition are: genocidal figures, McDonald's, death factories, images of capitalism, Holocaust. Forests are shown being cut down shawling bodies by Nazi figures while connecting aquatic zoos with dolphins so the work it's also about the exploitation of animals & the sea (natural resources) and contamination, as the sea it is painted black like oil. There is a whole pile of bodies inside McDonald's which suggests that McDonald's kills people and that the McDonald clown that was in the plane it's every where which makes the McDonald symbol into a terrorist, it's just another way of killing people, they kill people with crap food.
Then there is another piece with written at the top Come & See and below a group of animals having sex with each other but each animal was a food victim of the larger animal but rabbits don't eat mice so their 'predatory theory' doesn't hold here it's a weak point in the work they over did it, if they had only stopped at the rabbit!
In their work there is a lot of humour to do with sex like the figurines on the life boat doing position 69 (Kamasutra position) or like in the other piece where the penis is fucking the brain which is a ridicule, they use sex as weapon to undermine.
Thought I did find there where to many pictures on the walls, to many Ku Klux Klan figures so it becomes repetitive and the joke becomes stale. The exhibition had a clutter feel to it, the work needed a much bigger space. Also I saw some embalmed crows on the art work of the failed Kurt Scwitters which I saw as an other oppressive symbol. It's a distopian image it's a view of the world which is completely dysfunctional there is no love to be seen any where it's all about death and decay like for example in the portraits the faces (inspired by Goya) where all decaying and a woman had her mouth slashed open, (the work was bought and then vandalised, worked on by them) which shows teenage angst against past history & status.
Their work it's at the opposite spectrum of someone like for example Matisse whose artwork is life affirming their work to me is like the artistic architecture of hatred but done with humour, it's stimulating & dark thought I wouldn't advice someone who is depressed to view it and I do wonder how they would feel if they had their work vandalised? It is worth a lot of money and it takes them a while to make it, they are being photographed in famous magazines and shown on TV so I find this side of their work nonsensical as they are part of the establishment as much as the people in the portraits they ridicule. Their work seems to always be scarting on the edge of madness because of the manic energy within the work and because of this manic energy there is a feeling of over production of the imagination like of people who are in psychiatric hospitals.
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