May 8. fri. − May 23. Sat., 2009 TKG Editions, Kyoto
Jake & Dinos Chapman have been creating sensational and iconoclastic works, including sculpture, print, and installation. With these works they examine politics, religion, morality, violence, sex, and so on. Damien Hirst’s wide-ranging works redefine the boundary between art, science and popular culture. Through his unexpected and visually arresting works, Hirst explores the uncertainty of the fundamental themes such as human experience, love, life and death. Hirst became a leading figure of YBAs (Young British Artists) that dominated considerable attention in the British art scene in 1990s. Jake & Dinos Chapman are also the major artists of YBAs.
This exhibition features Jake & Dinos Chapman’s print series “My Giant Colouring Book,” which was created with inspiration from children’s books, and 4 print works by Damien Hirst, including “Cineole.”
Jake & Dinos Chapman are from London. Jake was born in 1966 and Dinos was born in 1962. They both graduated from Royal College of Art, and have exhibited intensively, including solo shows at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2000), and Tate Britain (2007). They were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003. Damien Hisrt was born in 1965 in Bristol, UK. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 1995 he won the Turner Prize with “Mother and Child, Divided,” a cow and a calf cut into sections and exhibited in a series of separate vitrines, which was exhibited in the Venice Biennale.
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