Flu

Flu is a contemporary artwork realized by Jake & Dinos Chapman in 2004.

Painted bronze sculpture – unique example

Provenance Galerie 20.21 Essen (Coll. Olbricht).

Certificate of authenticity from the gallery

Jake and Dinos Chapman are a duo of British artists whose shocking, collaborative projects incorporate plastic or fiberglass models to depict gruesome scenes of Nazi soldiers, McDonald’s characters, skeletons, dinosaurs, and other oddities. Their works are reminiscent of both Hieronymus Bosch’s ghoulish scenes of hell and Francisco Goya’s dark parodies of the Spanish government. Born Iakovos (Jake) Chapman in 1966 in Cheltenham, England and Konstantinos (Dinos) Chapman in 1962 in London, England, the Chapman brothers went on to study art. Dinos studied at Ravensbourne College of Art and Jake at North East London Polytechnic; they both attended the Royal College of Art for their master’s degree. The Chapman brothers were shown at one of the first group exhibitions of the YBAs, titled “Brilliant!,” in 1995 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which also included Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. Today, their works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others. Jake Chapman lives in Filkins, United Kingdom and Dinos Chapman lives in Spitalfields, England.