Francesca Martin
Wednesday December 12, 2007
The Guardian
The artists Jake and Dinos Chapman have finally finished a new version of their original 1999 work Hell. Created for their forthcoming show at the White Cube Mason's Yard in London next May, the piece is described by the artists as "bigger and better" than the original installation, which depicted thousands of 2in-high figures carrying out acts of mass torture and murder. Bought by Charles Saatchi for £500,000, the work was destroyed in a warehouse fire in Leyton, east London, in May 2004, along with hundreds of other major artworks. The new Hell - which will have a new, as-yet undisclosed title - was originally supposed to appear in the brothers' mid-career retrospective at Tate Liverpool last year, but was not ready in time. It is, according to Dinos, "even more horrible" than the original.
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