I love collaborating. When you find that person that you can interact with to get a more satisfying and pleasing result it is a rush. It is as though a volcano erupts. The blood pumps and the excitement ramps up. To understand someone to this extent is unfortunately rare in my experience, but when it happens it’s addictive. The amount of ideas that can be churned out is unexpected.
Jake and Dinos Chapman is an artist collaboration that I enjoyed seeing recently in the exhibition Classified: Contemporary Art at Tate Britain. Their artwork ended up being my favorite of the exhibition. It is titled The Chapman Family Collection (2002), which was recently purchased by the Tate. The artwork filled a very large, dark room, which when you walked into gave you a very eerie feeling as you quickly saw that you were surrounded by34 wooden totems; all looking at you. Then you realise that they aren’t completely native statues at all. They have been stamped by the global goblin and become happy meal accessories.
www.whitecube.com/artists/chapman/
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I wonder how their collaboration specifically influences their work? How does this type of participation effect their practise? Many interesting questions!
Thank you for your great postings!
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