Additional Chess sets by Tracey Emin, Max Ernst, Maurizio Cattelan, The Chapman Brothers, Damian Hirst, Kelly Mark, Gavin Turk, Alastair Mackie, Tom Friedman, and Takako Saito. 

Jake and Dinos Chapman | Bring Me the Head of...

Jake and Dinos Chapman
Bring Me the Head of... 
London, UK: Karsten Schubert, 1996
VHS, 30 min
Edition of 200 signed and numbered copies

A thirty-minute film in which two porn actresses pleasure themselves using the head of gallerist Franco Toselli, whose nose has been replaced with a phallus (see previous post).

"I like the way pornography is like an industrial process of the thing which is the most unmechanical and unindustrial: the sexual act or the acts around the sexual act. Constantly in our work there is an attempt to make an object and run around the other side to watch it, in the same way as anyone else would watch it. That is the most infantile aspect of our work. It is a reflective narcissism. We like to be spectators of our own work. The video is the same thing. We wanted to submit this head to the people who made the video and say ‘We want you to neutralize this object’."

- Jake Chapman

Jake and Dinos Chapman | Bring Me the Head of...

Jake and Dinos Chapman
Bring Me the Head of...
Self-published, 1994
40.7 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm.
Edition of 15

In 1994, the Milan gallerist Franco Toselli was slated to exhibit the Chapmans’ sculpture Mummy and Daddy Chapman, produced the year before. When Toselli received the work - two mannequins with genitalia sprouting from various parts of their bodies - he refused to show it.

As revenge, the Chapmans remodelled the head of ‘Daddy Chapman’ and substituted a dildo for his nose. The work was cast in fibreglass and resin, painted and given a wig.

The Chapman Brothers | Fucking Hell lighter

Hell, by Jake and Dinos Chapman, was a diorama consisting of thousands of plastic miniature figures of Nazis, depicting scenes of torture and mass killing, laid out in nine glass cases in the shape of a swastika. The epic work took more than two years to construct. It was purchased by Charles Saatchi for £500,000 and said to be one of his favourites.

It was one of several works destroyed destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire on Monday May 24th, 2004, which destroyed millions of dollars worth of art by Gillian Ayres, Patrick Caulfield, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Barry Flanagan, Chris Ofili and others.

The fire coincided with another problem for the Chapmans: "We're having a bit of a disaster in the studio," Dinos told the Guardian at the time. "There's a flood. We've had fire and flood and now we are expecting pestilence."

He added: "If the insurers decide the fire is an act of God it's going to be quite funny - that God destroyed Hell. In fact if that happens I will start going to church."

A decade later Momart approached the pair about contributing to their series of artists' multiples as Christmas Greeting Cards (see previous posts), as they had with other artists they had worked with, including those who lost significant works in the fire.

"We didn't have to think very hard," Dinos said, "What else could we do but come up with the idea of a Zippo lighter with the word Momart on it?”

Their proposal was rejected by the art handling service company, and a variation (commemorating the remake of Hell, now titled Fucking Hell) was self-published and available from the artists' website. It has subsequently sold out.

Jake and Dinos Chapman | Insult to Injury

Jake and Dinos Chapman
Insult to Injury Wallpaper
London, UK: White Cube, 2009
Digital print on wallpaper
1000 x 52 cm


A 10 metre roll of wallpaper (with a repeat of 84cm) featuring the artists' rewordings of Goya etchings. The victims heads have been replaced with those of puppies and clowns, the design of the wallpaper is based on traditional toile de Jouy textiles.

Available for £360.00, here.