Artists reveal world view of death and deformity

TURNER Prize favourites the Chapman Brothers gave an unprecedented glimpse yesterday of their world of death, deformity and depravity as a career retrospective of their work was unveiled.

For the first time their major works of the past decade are being displayed together, including disturbing but acclaimed pieces such as Hell and DNA Zygotic. Charles Saatchi has been a champion and avid collector of their art for many years and is displaying their work at his London Gallery.

Jake and Dinos Chapman are nominated for this year's Turner Prize Britain's best known art award and are the bookies' favourites to take the title in December.

With Hell, previously shown at the Royal Academy of Arts, they assembled 5,000 tiny Nazi figures involved in various atrocities and arranged in glass tanks.Also displayed is Disasters Of War, a series of original etchings by Goya which depict the hell of war which have been defaced by the brothers. Several of the pieces, including DNA Zygotic, are dummies of deformed children with exaggerated sexual organs.The most recent works in the exhibition are the pair's Chapman Family Collection, first shown last year.

They consist of a series of 34 wooden sculptures, many looking like African tribal figures. But on closer inspection they feature logos and characters created by the McDonald's food chain.

The Saatchi Gallery in London's County Hall opened earlier this year and attracted 300,000 visitors to its display of Damien Hirst works, which closed just over a week ago.

Also being displayed from tomorrow are works from Rebecca Warren's exhibition She, a series of exaggerated sculptures of women.

"The Chapman Family Collection and Rebecca Warren's She are Charles's favourite exhibitions from the past 12 months," said a Saatchi Gallery spokeswoman.