Hell all over again
The Momart fire was one of the great disasters of Britart. In a single warehouse fire, works by Tracy Emin, Damien Hirst, Gavin Turk, and other artists were destroyed – and one of the works lost to the flames was Hell, by Jake and Dinos Chapman.
But now, the Chapman brothers have revived Hell – calling it F***ing Hell this time round – and even improved it, making it bigger.
It’s a really strange work, replaying atrocities and war crimes using little plastic soldiers. The sheer banality of evil is what strikes you – the idea that these little plastic toys with …read more
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