NYAB Event - Jake Chapman and Dinos Chapman "Little Death Machines"

Jake Chapman and Dinos Chapman "Little Death Machines"

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At L&M Arts
Media: Sculpture

Jake and Dinos Chapman's "Little Death Machines" appear to be painted assemblages of hammers, motors, milk jugs and ossified human body parts, but underneath the slathers of luridly oversaturated high-gloss paint there is bronze instead of plastic, wood or flesh. This distance between appearance and reality, and the perceived inversion of "high" and "low" materials, activate these works and raise other questions. Are these machines made of "death," of dead tissue, or are they manifestations of psychological mechanisms-- the embodiments of human thoughts and biological processes that cause stasis, or death in life? The "little death" of the title is not only a disarmingly cute diminution of these macabre machines, but also, in referencing "la petite mort," refers to the aroused, disembodied genitalia forced into service of the mechanical and compulsively repetitive sexuality constructed here.