![]() There is farce and melodrama to this art: this is openly declared. The opening work is a booth full of paraphernalia related to their 20-year career, from slides of youthful works to Halloween masks, ping-pong eyeballs, latex brains, brushes and paint. Indeed, they seem especially intent on this point, lining the walls with delicate watercolours and pencil drawings in the manner of Leonardo. ![]() The Chapman Brothers (to adapt an early title) Are Artists. All is superbly crafted artifice, as the closed circle of big models looking at miniature models implies. For these are not Klansmen any more than the harbinger crows perched above us are alive, or the figures cut out of cardboard are actually coupling on their plinths. Instead of echoing the advice of the famous phrase that appears on the gates of hell in Dante’s story, “abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” Ulehla’s puppets and performance inspires hope, and illustrates the potential of repurposed materials.Jake (right) and Dinos Chapman in their studio with their piece entitled Fucking with Nature, now on show at the Serpentine Sackler. She studied puppetry in the Czech Republic, and frequently leads puppetry workshops for Bay Area students. Ulehla, who is also a goldsmith, received her AB in painting and drawing from Stanford University. ![]() The cast of marionettes performing in this version of Dante’s Inferno were made from reclaimed wood, metal, and leather, that was then carved and painted. Using recycled materials, Niki Ulehla created a cast of puppet characters for a production based on Dante’s Inferno performed at Recology San Francisco as part of The Artist in Residence Program at Recology. Niki Ulehla’s Inferno at the San Francisco Dump: Using recycled materials Niki Ulehla (Recology Artist in Residence) created a cast of puppet characters for a production of Dante’s Inferno performed on site at Recology ![]()
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