Post-Fire – Rebuilding Hell

Among the millions of dollars worth of artwork destroyed in Saatchi fire was the Chapman brothers’ Hell, considered their best work. It consists of 10,000 plastic figures and took two years to make. Now the brothers have decided to rebuild. “We’re going to make a second version, a more extensive, updated `Hell.’ There are a lot of things that didn’t go into the first `Hell.’ This has given us a second opportunity to revisit it.’ Much has changed since 1998, when they began working on Hell. ‘At the time we had just lost our gallery and were unemployed. We had time on our hands’.”