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Not for the faint hearted,, can't say what the sound track is, no sound card on this laptop but the visuals themselves are stunning, everything from Nazi zombies to a headless christ via H Borsh!!

this is the stuff of nightmares...

//http://www.jakeanddinoschapman.com/

Wouldn't worry about the soundtrack, Huff, it's just (stifles yawn) Barber's Adagio for Strings.  There are other prices of music, people!

Nice visuals though!  Particularly liked Zombie Hawking.

Is'nt there a couple o postmodernist artists who does this kind of thing but punts it around galleries as art?

Think you're right there, can't remember their names though.

After a second watching, I'm imagining a theme:  it seems to be Nazis getting their just desserts in hell.  I know the skeletal types are wearing German helmets too, but all the 'live' victims they're abusing (and most of the static corpses) are wearing Swastikas and German uniforms, and most are blond.  Baby Hitler's baptism in a font of blood may also be a hint.

All very Zenith Phase III.

Quote from: "Proudhuff"Is'nt there a couple o postmodernist artists who does this kind of thing but punts it around galleries as art?

Not sure if you're joking or not, but I'll bite anyway. They're called Jake & Dinos Chapman.  A bit like the website you linked to, coincidentally.

Anyone know if this is a new work or footage of the old one?

Pretty great stuff just for the work that's gone it. Perhaps Tharg should approach them about doing a strip. Or Games Workshop could get them to do some sort of Warhammer thing. Connecting high and low culture, turning The Kids on to The Arts, that's what it's all about. Free Goya print to deface with this month's White Dwarf.

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Quote from: "Proudhuff"Aren't there a couple of postmodernist artists who do this kind of thing but put it around galleries as art?

Not sure if you're joking or not, but I'll bite anyway.

I have to admit, I was too scared to post the answer because I was convinced they must be joshing, waiting to see who got duped.

Well done Cosh for taking that bullet.

I couldn't help but giggle at most of this, it looks like an obssesive model making adolescent's art project and Barber's adagio was really inappropriate for mock pahos. The work doesn't really live up to the use of that music which has become cliche. I would see it as a bit of a joke, if it weren't for the many hours that went into the modelling so I assume the artists' intention is to be taken seriously, but it's a serious miscalculation. Belongs in the Tracey Emmin, Damien Hirst bin but with less vague bullshit and little true substance, it's reach far exceeds it's grasp. The camera work is laughable, a bit like filming lego men.

Ah, confusion reigns...
I don't think (or said) its by those guys nor indeed that it is this being punted as postM art, its just that it reminded me off J&C's work on Goya

Okay the camera work isn't up there with Spielberg or who ever and I haven't hear the soundtrack yet , but the sheer work that has gone into it is stunning if a tad obsesive



 ..and i like lego films

Quote from: "Proudhuff"Ah, confusion reigns...
I don't think (or said) its by those guys nor indeed that it is this being punted as postM art, its just that it reminded me off J&C's work on Goya

but it is by them so what's the difference?, it still has an air of python silliness about it, but I don't think that's the intention, especially with that music. As a model on it's own it's not bad, as a short, crap. Their art is not particularly shocking, it just looks like plastic model versions of "Slayer" album covers. Give me Nemesis any day. Comics: the real modern art.

Personally, I think Stalag 666 would've been a better title for it than Fucking Hell.

Quote from: "Wikipedia"The Chapman brothers continued the theme of anatomical and pornographic grotesque with a series of mannequins of children, sometimes fused together, with genitalia in place of facial features. Their sculpture Hell (2000) consisted of a large number of miniature figures of Nazis arranged in nine glass cases laid out in the shape of a swastika.
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On 24 May 2004, a fire in a storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection including Hell. The brothers subsequently made a very similar, though more extensive, work called Fucking Hell.

In the context of the sort of dioramas you see in the window of Games Workshop, it's awesome. In the context of Guernica I'm not so sure.

QuoteIn the context of the sort of dioramas you see in the window of Games Workshop, it's awesome. In the context of Guernica I'm not so sure.

Spot on that's how I feel, I thought it was a teen/fanboy thang that was well done as opposed to a wanky artworld thing where they probably got a load of assitants to do the work (much like Daimen Hurst), is it art? only if the dioramas in Games Workshop are.

I like the level of detail, whether or not it's art.

I like to see a 2000AD inspired diorama.

Mega City one would be intresting one to do and would require alot of planning and hard work.

I would imagine starting something like this myself, using cardboard, paper mache, loads of 'Gangs of Mega City One' Minatures. and giving up a third of the way through the process.

Something like this was being discussed here.

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