Jake and Dinos Chapman (b. 1966 and b. 1962)
Lot 104

Jake and Dinos Chapman (b. 1966 and b. 1962)

Zygotic

Closed1 July 2009

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GBP 49,250

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Jake and Dinos Chapman (b. 1966 and b. 1962)
Zygotic
fibreglass, resin, paint, wigs and shoes
67 x 39 x 47in. (170.2 x 99.1 x 119.4cm.)
Executed in 1997

Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997.

Specialist note

"What has attracted the most attention has been Jake and Dinos Chapman's strategy of an ever more audacious manipulation of commercial mannequins to present a perverted, post-Freudian playground where anything seems possible. Sometimes disturbing, often plain daft, 'Chapmanworld' (as they called their first major public exhibition at the ICA in 1996), is an amoral bio-mayhem where genetic engineering has gone horribly wrong"
(L. Buck, Moving Target's: A User's Guide to British Art Now, London 1997, p. 72).