Description

Jake and Dinos Chapman. The lisper lisps, the stutterer stutters, the dyslexic disleksiks IV. 2014. Edition of 50. 7 colour lithographic print on velin Arches 300 gsm cotton paper. 27 3/16 x 39 3/8 in. (67 x 100 cm) (unframed). £1800. In this print, one of a set of four highly detailed lithographic prints by Jake & Dinos Chapman, the artists create images of both beauty and dumb horror, through a process of appropriation and fluid, sophisticated draughtsmanship. As the title suggests, The lisper lisps, the stutterer stutters, the dyslexic disleksiks I, II, III & VI depicts these characteristics as grotesquery using the schematic figurative images found in children's 'dot-to-dot' drawing books. Rather than realise the designed image, however, the artists have departed from their simple templates to create cartoonish animal and human forms in works that seem to synchronise the language of Art Brut, Surrealism, 'outsider art' and comic strips. By adopting a language of artistic redundancy, the artists have created four exquisitely drawn, highly worked coloured images that revel in their own humorous subversion and transgression.