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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.The Brothers Grim. You don’t see many mid-career retrospectives that include the artists’ GCSE coursework, or sculptures done at primary school. But when the artists are Jake and Dinos Chapman, it somehow makes sense. The Bad Art for Bad People show includes over ten years of work, ranging from their super-slick deformed mannequins to a recent series of cack-handed but intricately detailed model dinosaurs made from toilet roll tubes and poster paint. There is also another chance to see the brilliant Chapman Family Collection, comprising hand-carved mock tribal artefacts adorned with McDonald’s graphics. In true YBA style, the Chapmans have always used shock as if it were a physical material, bating the viewer by distorting aesthetic and cultural values. Pondering over whether they have ruined or enhanced an original set of Goya’s Disasters Of War etchings by drawing clowns faces onto them, you realise that the question isn’t whether this is an exhibition of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ art, but about having a good or bad understanding of what constitutes contemporary art. Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People is at Tate Liverpool until 4 March 07.
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