Don't Eat a Fudgesicle While Viewing This...

...because I did and now I'm sick. Jake & Dinos Chapman's recreation of their 2000 work (ironically destroyed by an accidental warehouse fire) Hell is entitled Fucking Hell. It looks amazing, some critics are already calling it the first major artwork of the 21st century. Comparisons to Bruegel the Younger and Bosch are inevitable and maybe deserved. Here are some photos but this video gives you a much more horrific picture.





Update: Nick pointed out the similarities to this Halo video proving once again that popular culture has already gone ahead and produced something (almost as) equally arresting for the masses while the obscenely rich and cloistered art world continues to sit around and jerk each others largely half-baked and bullshit ideas off. That being said I am still really impressed with the Chapman's piece although not with the current art market as a whole...

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