IRL 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jake And Dinos Chapman, La Comandante, Candela
13 Jul 2016
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Shortlisted for turner prize (prestigious contemporary art prize, british ergo usually awarded to brits, cash value ~ 50 000. Award is for body of work to date = usually a mid-career artist. If you get it, your value skyrockets because people start paying attention. Chapman bros famous for discussing violence, brutality, historical events that are disgusting. They like lifelike stuff, v into visual rhetoric eg detailed miniatures or lifelike nazis. Play on arbeit macht frei which was seen on the gates of work camps concentration camps (work will set you free) Multiple layers of meaning: when you work at mcd"s, shitty, you stop eating the food, it doesn"t rot. But people still eat mcd"s because cheap, it"s everywhere, addicted. Working conditions are bad--short breaks, long shifts, burns, fighting with management, cannot unionize--they don"t want you to think you"re needed. Arbeit mcfries: there was an explosion, mutilation, soldiers are killing and torturing.
