<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nWonderland is thoroughly in favour of the Chapman Brothers, the artist-duo who first repulsed critics in the 90s with charming creations such as Fuckface<\/em> (1994\u00a0\u2013 a child mannequin with a penis for a nose) and, later, really began to twist the knife with works including Insult to Injury<\/em> (a series of defaced goya etchings). We’re also big fans of Dover Street Market \u2013\u00a0Rei Kawakubo and Adrian Joffe’s peerless avant garde fashion superstore in London’s Mayfair. So imagine our delight at the marriage of the two, in the current window for the store’s spring 2012 refit, which everyone should really go and see before it closes this Friday. In case you need any further motive to check it out, see below \u2013\u00a0a short exchange in which Dinos Chapman wittily shuts down our over-eager questions about the window and his new book Flogging a Dead Horse<\/em>.<\/p>\nSo, what kind of thoughts went into the window?<\/strong><\/p>\nNo thoughts.<\/p>\n
There isn\u2019t a Japanese-y Godzilla-style reference there?<\/strong><\/p>\nNo. It\u2019s just that the sculptures are very heavy, so they can\u2019t be stolen. <\/p>\n
Well, what if someone came up with a big wagon, smashed the window\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nNo. They\u2019d make a bit of a mess of it. Anyway, it just seemed like a nice thing to put in a shop window. <\/p>\n
Are they related to other works?<\/strong><\/p>\nThey\u2019re the babies of the big dinosaurs that are at the moment in\u2026 errr.. Cambridge. <\/p>\n
How do you feel generally about doing a commercial project like this?<\/strong><\/p>\nGreat! I mean, what\u2019s the difference? It\u2019s all part of the same thing. It\u2019s the same animal isn\u2019t it. <\/p>\n
[stops to sign a book]<\/p>\n
Why did you think now was a good time to do a survey book?<\/strong><\/p>\nBecause we were given total freedom to do what we wanted with the book. We\u2019ve been offered this so many times, but often the restrictions are too much for us to put up with. <\/p>\n
What kind of restrictions?<\/strong><\/p>\nPeople want to impose a design ethic we\u2019re just not interested in. So finally someone said, \u2018do what you want\u2019 and we did. So here it is. I mean it could be fifteen other books, because it\u2019s so much work, it\u2019s the tip of the iceberg. <\/p>\n
Was it tough to select what was going in?<\/strong><\/p>\nWell no, because we just decided we weren\u2019t going to try and get everything in it. So there\u2019s just loads of things that aren\u2019t in\u2026 thousands of drawings and thousands of letters and emails, all those things.<\/p>\n
And as far as the title \u2013 “Flogging a dead horse” \u2013 how serious is that?<\/strong><\/p>\nReally<\/em> serious. [laughs]. <\/p>\nSo are we going to see a change in direction?<\/strong><\/p>\nNo, no, no. We\u2019re gonna just keep flogging the dead horse. Flogging the skeleton of the dead horse. [laughs] \n \nJake and Dinos Chapman’s Dover Street Market Window is on show until Friday February 17. The artists’ new book<\/em> Flogging a Dead Horse is avialable now from Rizzoli<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We quiz Dinos Chapman about his quasi-fascist, quasi-prehistoric window for Dover Street Market, up until Friday, as well as new book Flogging a Dead Horse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305],"tags":[305,97,1715,449,72,50,1716],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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