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The Chapman Family Collection

Jake and Dinos Chapman, 2002

This installation of 34 wooden carvings is displayed on plinths and dramatically illuminated by pools of light in a darkened room. It purports to be an 'extraordinary assemblage of rare ethnographic and reliquary fetish objects which subsequent generations of the Chapman family have diligently added to over a period of seventy years'. However on closer inspection the unmistakable face of Ronald McDonald leers out from one of the works and the golden arches can be detected in every other carving. The Chapman Family Collection is widely considered to be their most conceptually sophisticated and accomplished work to date. The Chapmans make the issue of cultural trespass the broader issue addressed here, rather than any simplistic reference to a fast-food chain.

More information

Title of artwork, date

The Chapman Family Collection, 2002

Date supported

2007

Medium and material

Mixed media

Dimensions

Various dimensions

Grant

200000

Total cost

1500000

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