Description

Edition of 125. Photogravure on 300gsm Somerset Tub sized paper with a chine colle. 45.5 X 56.5 cm. Signed and numbered by the artist on the front. Special Launch Price of £450. In their reworked illustrations from colouring books Jake and Dinos Chapman deliberately play off childhood innocence against the macabre and the sinister. Commissioned exclusively by Counter Editions I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago (I) (2010) illustrates an imagined moment in the mind of a child. The idyllic image of a little boy and a fluffy bunny is subsumed into a nightmarish vision of decaying corpses and lurking monsters. The bunny stands blissfully unaware of the gruesome one-eyed beast hovering over its shoulder, whilst a pair of eyes stares maniacally from a decomposing skull, drawing us deeper into the horror. I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago (I) (2010) has been published to coincide with the exhibition Jake or Dinos Chapman at White Cube, London.